Chern-Simons theory, link invariants and the Askey-Wilson algebra

Nicolas Crampé, Luc Vinet, Meri Zaimi

The occurrence of the Askey-Wilson (AW) algebra in the $SU(2)$ Chern-Simons (CS) theory and in the Reshetikhin-Turaev (RT) link invariant construction with quantum algebra $U_q(\ma…