Advances in topological quantum field theory /

This volume is the conference proceedings of the NATO ARW during August 2001 at Kananaskis Village, Canada on "New Techniques in Topological Quantum Field Theory". This conference brought together specialists from a number of different fields all related to Topological Quantum Field Theory...

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Corporate Authors: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on New Techniques in Topological Quantum Field Theory Kananaskis Village, Alta., SpringerLink (Online service), North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
Other Authors: Bryden, J. M. (John M.)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division, 2004.
Series:NATO science series. Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 179.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial
  • Combinatorial Formulas for Cohomology of spaces of Knots
  • On the Homology of Spaces of Long Knots
  • Some computations of Ohtsuki series: From 3-moves to Lagrangian tangles and cubic skein modules
  • On Spin and Complex Spin Borromean Surgeries
  • Khovanov homology: torsion and thickness
  • Khovanov Homology for Knots and Links up to 11 Crossings
  • Perturbative Quantum Field Theory and L Algebras
  • A linking form conjecture for 3-manifolds
  • Mappings of non-zero degree between 3-manifolds: a new obstruction
  • On braid groups, homotopy groups, and modular forms
  • A note on symplectic circle actions and Massey products
  • Realization of Primitive Branched Coverings over Closed Surfaces
  • Cohomology Rings of Oriented Seifert Manifolds with mod p Coefficients
  • On cyclic covers of the Riemann sphere and a related class of curves.