Chern-Simons Field Theory and Invariants of 3-Manifolds Contributor(s): Pilo, Luigi (Author) |
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ISBN: 8876422781 ISBN-13: 9788876422782 Publisher: Edizioni Della Normale OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
Dewey: 530.15 |
Series: Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.51" (1.12 lbs) 217 pages |
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Publisher Description: In the last decade the research field under the name of topological quantum field theory has undergone an impressive growth. We shall focus our attention on the topological quantum field theory introduced by Witten, namely the 3-dimensional Chern-Simons field theory. Differently from Witten's original approach, we shall adopt a fully 3-dimensional point of view; no result from 2-dimensional conformal field theory will be used. |