Quantum gravity and the algebra of tangles

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/10/4/006zbMath0788.46073arXivhep-th/9205007OpenAlexW3102367704WikidataQ62443710 ScholiaQ62443710MaRDI QIDQ4032968

John C. Baez

Publication date: 23 May 1993

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9205007

zbMATH Keywords

Jones polynomiallink invariantsKauffman brackettangle algebra\(*\)-algebra structure of the algebra of observablesempty linkinner products on quotientsloop representation of quantum gravity in \(3+1\) dimensionsSU(2) Chern-Simons theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50)

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