Quantum Topology (Series on Knots & Everything)
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Published: September 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789810225759
Subjects: Algebraic topology; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science/Mathematics
First sentence: This paper is a general introduction to quantum topology and it is an exposition of a combinatorial approach to the Jones polynomial and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants, via knot diagrams, tangles and the Temperley Lieb algebra.