Dr. Nathan Geer, Utah State University, "Re-normalized Link Invariants"
When:
- Thursday, January 10, 2019 from 4:10pm to 5:00pm
Where:
- Wilson Hall, 1144 - view map
Description:
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In the last few years, C. Blanchet, F. Costantino, M. De Renzi, B. Patureau, N. Reshetikhin, V. Turaev and myself (in various collaborations) have developed a theory of renormalized quantum invariants of links and 3-manifolds which lead to TQFTs. This talk will start out by giving an overview of this work. In the second part of the talk I will discuss the renormalized quantum invariants of links coming from quantized sl(2) at a root of unity. These link invariants contain Kashaev's quantum dilogarithm invariants of knots, the Akutsu-Deguchi-Ohtsuki invariant of links and the multi-variable Alexander Polynomial. Moreover, these re-normalized invariants of knots are meromorphic functions whose residues are closely related to the the colored Jones polynomials.
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