A gauge-field approach to 3- and 4-manifold invariants
Volume 39 / 1997
Banach Center Publications 39 (1997), 201-209
DOI: 10.4064/-39-1-201-209
Abstract
An approach to construction of topological invariants of the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten type of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds in the framework of SU(2) Chern-Simons gauge theory and its hidden (quantum) gauge symmetry is presented.