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Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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On non-additive versions of the Kauffman-Radford reformulation of the Hennings invariant (KRH invariant.)
by
Fernando J. O. Souza
Department of Mathematics - University of Iowa
Coauthors: Part of the materials in this talk were obtained in collaboration with Louis Kauffman and David Radford.

The Kauffman-Radford reformulation of the Hennings invariant (KRH invariant) of orientable, closed 3-manifolds is defined via surgery instructions in terms of formal sums involving diagrams and Hopf-algebra objects. We will discuss variations of that definition, retaining the use of diagrammatic Hopf-algebra objects, but not the assumption that the underlying category is additive. The author and co-authors have used these versions of the KRH invariant to investigate its relationship with other invariants.

Date received: February 10, 2005


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