Surgical invariants of four-manifolds

1993/02/19 by Bogusław Broda, Broda, B. · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Advanced Operator Algebra Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9302092

Abstract

A new topological invariant of closed connected orientable four-dimensional manifolds is proposed. The invariant, constructed via surgery on a special link, is a four-dimensional counterpart of the celebrated SU(2) three-manifold invariant of Reshetikhin, Turaev and Witten.

Citations

• Invariants of 3-manifolds via link polynomials and quantum groups

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