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gr-qc1993★ 1 cited
Vassiliev Invariants and the Loop States in Quantum Gravity
Louis H. Kauffman
An exposition of Vassiliev invariants is given in terms of the simplest approach to the functional integral construction of link invariants from Chern-Simons theory. This approach…
hep-th1993★ 4 cited
On the Classicality of Broda's SU(2) Invariant of 4-manifolds
Louis Crane, Louis H. Kauffman, David N. Yetter
Recent work of Roberts has shown that the first surgical 4-manifold invariant of Broda and (up to an unspecified normalization factor) the state-sum invariant arising from the TQFT…
hep-th1993
Evaluating the Crane-Yetter Invariant
Louis Crane, Louis H. Kauffman, David N. Yetter
We provide an explicit formula for the invariant of 4-manifolds introduced by Crane and Yetter (in hep-th 9301062). A consequence of our result is the existence of a combinatorial…