Ghosts, knots and Kontsevich integrals
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Ghosts, knots and Kontsevich integrals
zbMATH Open document ID: 0819.53045
DOI: 10.1016/0393-0440(93)E0064-V
author: Juan Mateos Guilarte
published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics
publication date: 1995-02-26T00:00:00Z
review text: The work provides a physical interpretation of Vassiliev-Kontsevich invariants in the framework of Chern-Simons gauge field theory. Using the Hamiltonian formulation of the theory and computing the expectation values of Wilson loops to some order in the perturbative expansion, it is shown that the instantaneous propagation of Faddeev-Popov ghosts represents ``building blocks'' for the topology of a knot.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57Q45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T99
zbMATH DE Number: 727293
zbMATH Keywords: topological quantum field theory
zbMATH Keywords: knot invariants
reviewed by: Leszek M. Sokołowski
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0393-0440(93)e0064-v
OpenAlex ID: W2052620967
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 727293