Temperley-Lieb Recoupling Theory and Invariants of 3-Manifolds (Am-134), Volume 134

by Sóstenes Lins and Louis H. Kauffman

This book offers a self-contained account of the 3-manifold invariants arising from the original Jones polynomial. These are the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev and the Turaev-Viro invariants. Starting from the Kauffman bracket model for the Jones polynomial and the diagrammatic Temperley-Lieb algebra, higher-order polynomial invariants of links are constructed and combined to form the 3-manifold invariants. The methods in this book are based on a recoupling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691036403
• ISBN13: 9780691036403
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"