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Chern-Simons Gauge Theory: 20 Years After
About this Title
Jørgen E. Andersen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Hans U. Boden, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Atle Hahn, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal and Benjamin Himpel, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Editors
Publication: AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics
Publication Year:
2011; Volume 50
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5353-5 (print); 978-1-4704-1753-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/amsip/050
MathSciNet review: MR2798328
MSC: Primary 58-06; Secondary 57-06, 81-06
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Remarks 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