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020 _a9781470417536 (online)
050 _aQA241
245 0 _aChern-Simons gauge theory 20 years after
_h: AMSIP volume 50
260 _aProvidence, R.I. :;[Somerville, Mass.] :
_bAmerican Mathematical Society : International Press,
_cc2011.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 446 p. : ill.)
490 _aAMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics,
_vv. 50
_x2472-5153
500 _aProceedings of a workshop held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Aug. 3-7, 2009.
505 _tRemarks on Wilson loops and Seifert loops in Chern-Simons theory ; Quantum field theory and the volume conjecture ; Computational aspects in Reidemeister torsion and Chern-Simons theories ; Functional integration and abelian link invariants ; Chern-Simons invariants, SO(3) instantons, and
_\mathbb {Z}/2
_ homology cobordism ; Extending the
_SU(3)
_ Casson invariant to rational homology 3-spheres ; Decomposition of Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant: Linking pairing and modular forms ; Representations and the colored Jones polynomial of a torus knot ; Eta-invariants and anomalies in
_U/1
_ Chern-Simons theory ; Delta-groupoids and ideal triangulations ; Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds derived from the equivariant linking pairing ; Chern-Simons theory, the
_1/N
_ expansion, and string theory ; Global Lorentzian geometry from lightlike geodesics: What does an observer in (2+1)-gravity see? ; Spin foam state sums and Chern-Simons theory ; Representations of the Ptolemy groupoid, Johnson homomorphisms, and finite type invariants ; Yang-Mills in two dimensions and Chern-Simons in three ; Intersection pairings on spaces of connections and Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds ; Fermionization and convergent perturbation expansions in Chern-Simons gauge theory ; Analytic continuation of Chern-Simons theory
650 _aAlgebraic topology
650 _aAssociative rings
650 _aGroup theory
650 _aK-theory
650 _aNumber theory
700 _aAndersen, Jrgen E.
856 _uhttp://www.ams.org/amsip/050
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_d28354