In the mathematical field of knot theory, a quantum knot invariant or quantum invariant of a knot or link is a linear sum of colored Jones polynomial of surgery presentations of the knot complement.
List of invariants
- Finite type invariant
- Kontsevich invariant
- Kashaev's invariant
- Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant (Chern–Simons)
- Invariant differential operator4
- Rozansky–Witten invariant
- Vassiliev knot invariant
- Dehn invariant
- LMO invariant5
- Turaev–Viro invariant
- Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant6
- Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant
- Tau-invariant
- I-Invariant
- Klein J-invariant
- Quantum isotopy invariant7
- Ermakov–Lewis invariant
- Hermitian invariant
- Goussarov–Habiro theory of finite-type invariant
- Linear quantum invariant (orthogonal function invariant)
- Murakami–Ohtsuki TQFT
- Generalized Casson invariant
- Casson-Walker invariant
- Khovanov–Rozansky invariant
- HOMFLY polynomial
- K-theory invariants
- Atiyah–Patodi–Singer eta invariant
- Link invariant8
- Casson invariant
- Seiberg–Witten invariants
- Gromov–Witten invariant
- Arf invariant
- Hopf invariant
See also
- Invariant theory
- Framed knot
- Chern–Simons theory
- Algebraic geometry
- Seifert surface
- Geometric invariant theory
Further reading
- Freedman, Michael H. (1990). Topology of 4-manifolds. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691085777. OL 2220094M.
- Ohtsuki, Tomotada (December 2001). Quantum Invariants. World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 9789810246754. OL 9195378M.
External links
References
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Kontsevich, Maxim (1993). "Vassiliev's knot invariants". Adv. Soviet Math. 16: 137. ↩
Watanabe, Tadayuki (2007). "Knotted trivalent graphs and construction of the LMO invariant from triangulations". Osaka J. Math. 44 (2): 351. Retrieved 4 December 2012. http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.ojm/1183667985 ↩
Letzter, Gail (2004). "Invariant differential operators for quantum symmetric spaces, II". arXiv:math/0406194. /wiki/Gail_Letzter ↩
Sawon, Justin (2000). "Topological quantum field theory and hyperkähler geometry". arXiv:math/0009222. /wiki/ArXiv_(identifier) ↩
Petit, Jerome (1999). "The invariant of Turaev-Viro from Group category" (PDF). hal.archives-ouvertes.fr. Retrieved 2019-11-04. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/09/02/99/PDF/equality_arxiv_1.pdf ↩
Lawton, Sean (June 28, 2007). "Generators of SL ( 2 , C ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {SL} (2,\mathbb {C} )} -Character Varieties of Arbitrary Rank Free Groups" (PDF). The 7th KAIST Geometric Topology Fair. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20070720181358/http://knot.kaist.ac.kr/7thkgtf/Lawton1.pdf ↩
Reshetikhin, N.; Turaev, V. G. (1991). "Invariants of 3-manifolds via link polynomials and quantum groups". Inventiones Mathematicae. 103 (3): 547–597. doi:10.1007/BF01239527. MR 1091619. /wiki/Doi_(identifier) ↩