p-Modular TQFT's, Milnor torsion and the Casson-Lescop invariant

2002/03/31 by Thomas Kerler
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published as Geom.Topol.Monographs 4 (2002) 119-141 · Published by Geometry and Topology Monographs at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon4/paper9.abs.html

arxiv created 2002/11/04 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We derive formulae which lend themselves to TQFT interpretations of the Milnor torsion, the Lescop invariant, the Casson invariant, and the Casson-Morita cocyle of a 3-manifold, and, furthermore, relate them to the Reshetikhin-Turaev theory.

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