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The Interface of Knots and Physics: American Mathematical Society Short Course January 2-3, 1995 San Francisco, California (Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics)

By American Mathematical Society , Louis H. Kauffman

Book information

Publisher
Amer Mathematical Society
Year
1995
ISBN
0821803808, 9780821803806
LCC
QC20.7.K56 I58 1995
Open Library ID
OL22364559M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6330187 bytes)
Pages
215\215
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This book is the result of an AMS Short Course on Knots and Physics that was held in San Francisco (January 1994). The range of the course went beyond knots to the study of invariants of low dimensional manifolds and extensions of this work to four manifolds and to higher dimensions. The authors use ideas and methods of mathematical physics to extract topological information about knots and manifolds. Features: A basic introduction to knot polynomials in relation to statistical link invariants. Concise introductions to topological quantum field theories and to the role of knot theory in quantum gravity. Knots and Physics would be an excellent supplement to a course on algebraic topology or a physics course on field theory.

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