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Knots and Representation Theory
April 17, 2012 18:30, Moscow


Knots and quantum field theory

L. Kauffman

University of Illinois at Chicago

Abstract: This talk will discuss how knot invariants are related to Witten's functional integral and in particular how Vassiliev invariants are related to Witten's approach to knots and quantum field theory. We will show that the Kontsevich integrals arise as Feynman integrals in the perturbative expansion of Wittern's integral.


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