Feynman Integral, Knot Invariant and Degree Theory of Maps

1997/09/19 by Yang, Su-Win
#FOS: Mathematics #Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9709029

Abstract

The universal Vassiliev invariant from the perturbative Chern-Simons theory is actually a knot invariant without any correction term. The anomaly considered by Bott and Taubes is proved to be zero.

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