TQFT and Whitehead's manifold

1995/09/26 by Louis Funar, Funar, Louis
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Quantum Algebra (math.QA) #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis #math.QA #q-alg

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9509027

LaTex,9 pages,8 figures .eps included, uses psfig

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Abstract

The aim of this note is to derive some invariants at infinity for open 3-manifolds in the framework of Topological Quantum Field Theories. These invariants may be used to test if an open manifold is simply connected at infinity as we done for Whitehead's manifold in case of the sl₂(\bf C)-TQFT in level 4.

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