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Knots in Washington XLI
December 4-6, 2015
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Quantum in variants of three manifolds equipped with an SL(2, C) representation of its fundamental group.
by
Charles Frohman
University of Iowa

We begin by reviewing the structure of the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra at a root of unity,

And it's relation to the ring of SL(2,C) characters of the fundamental group of the surface.

Next we show how this gives rise to invariants of three-manifolds that fiber over the circle.

Finally, we outline how this can give rise to a field theory.

Date received: September 28, 2015


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