The interface of knots and physics : American Mathematical Society short course, January 2-3, 1995, San Francisco, California
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The interface of knots and physics : American Mathematical Society short course, January 2-3, 1995, San Francisco, California
（Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics, v. 51 . AMS short course lecture notes）
American Mathematical Society, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"Lecture notes prepared for the American Mathematical Society short course, Knots and Physics" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is the result of an AMS Short Course on Knots and Physics that was held in San Francisco (January 1994). The range of the course went beyond knots to the study of invariants of low dimensional manifolds and extensions of this work to four manifolds and to higher dimensions. The authors use ideas and methods of mathematical physics to extract topological information about knots and manifolds. The book features: a basic introduction to knot polynomials in relation to statistical link invariants; and, concise introductions to topological quantum field theories and to the role of knot theory in quantum gravity. ""Knots and Physics"" would be an excellent supplement to a course on algebraic topology or a physics course on field theory.
Table of Contents
Knots and statistical mechanics by L. H. Kauffman An introduction to topological field theory by R. J. Lawrence Vassiliev and quantum invariants of braids by D. Bar-Natan The modern legacies of Thomson's atomic vortex theory in classical electrodynamics by S. J. Lomonaco, Jr. Spin networks in nonperturbative quantum gravity by J. C. Baez.
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