Quantum topology and the Lorentz group

We analyse the perturbative expansion of knot invariants related with infinite dimensional representations of sl(2,R) and the Lorentz group taking as a starting point the Kontsevich Integral and the notion of central characters of infinite dimensional unitary representations of Lie Groups. The prime...

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Main Author: Martins, João Nuno Gonçalves Faria
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2004
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13277/