The interface of knots and physics : American Mathematical Society short course, January 2-3, 1995, San Francisco, California / Louis H. Kauffman, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kauffman, Louis H., 1945- editor.

American Mathematical Society.

Series:

Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics ; Volume 51.

Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics, 0160-7634 ; Volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knot theory--Congresses.

Knot theory.

Mathematical physics--Congresses.

Mathematical physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the result of an AMS Short Course on Knots and Physics that was held in San Francisco (January 1994). The range of the course went beyond knots to the study of invariants of low dimensional manifolds and extensions of this work to four manifolds and to higher dimensions. The authors use ideas and methods of mathematical physics to extract topological information about knots and manifolds. Features: A basic introduction to knot polynomials in relation to statistical link invariants. Concise introductions to topological quantum field theories and to the role of knot theory in quantum gravity. Knots and Physics would be an excellent supplement to a course on algebraic topology or a physics course on field theory.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Knots and statistical mechanics

An introduction to topological field theory

Vassiliev and quantum invariants of braids

The modern legacies of Thomson's atomic vortex theory in classical electrodynamics

Spin networks in nonperturbative quantum gravity

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8218-9266-5

OCLC:

1037815271