A gauge-field approach to 3- and 4-manifold invariants

Abstract

The paper contains a talk given by the author at the Banach Center in Spring 1995. It recapitulates author's 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.

arXiv comment8 pages, tex, no figures (Talk given at the Symposium on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Banach Center, 1995), some points clarified and a drawing added

References in corpus (2)

• Chern-Simons approach to three-manifold invariants
• On the Classicality of Broda's SU(2) Invariant of 4-manifolds