The Chern-Simons invariants for the double of a compression body

2016/10/22 by Duncan, David L.
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.07057

Abstract

Given a 3-manifold that can be written as the double of a compression body, we compute the Chern-Simons critical values for arbitrary compact connected structure groups. We also show that the moduli space of flat connections is connected when there are no reducibles.

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