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The Interface of Knots and Physics: American Mathematical Society Short Course January 2-3, 1995 San Francisco, California

By Louis H. Kauffman , American Mathematical Society (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Amer Mathematical Society
Year
1996
ISBN
0-8218-0380-8, 9780821803806, 12-1985-239-2, 32-1986-271-3, 35-1889-663-6
LCC
QC20.7.K56 I58 1996
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3231569 bytes)
Series
Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics 051
Pages
221\221
Library
kolxoz
DPI
600
Time added
2014-09-15 06:02:17

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. The book features: a basic introduction to knot polynomials in relation to statistical link invariants; and, 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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