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Chern-Simons factorization algebras and knot polynomials
Kevin Costello, John Francis, Owen Gwilliam
This work identifies the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of links in terms of a trace map on factorization homology. In particular, to recover the knot invariants associated to Chern-…
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A parametrized Pontryagin--Thom theorem
David Ayala, John Francis
We prove a space-level enhancement of the Pontryagin--Thom theorem, identifying the space of maps from a manifold to a Thom space with a moduli space of submanifolds.