Knot Theory from the Perspective of Field and String Theory

Abstract

I present a summary of the recent progress made in field and string theory which has led to a reformulation of quantum-group polynomial invariants for knots and links into new polynomial invariants whose coefficients can be described in topological terms. The approach opens a new point of view in the theory of knot and link invariants.

5 pages, Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Budapest, 12-18 July 2001

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Chern-Simons Theory in the Temporal Gauge and Knot Invariants through the Universal Quantum R-Matrix