Perturbative Topological Field Theory
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We give a review of the application of perturbative techniques to topologi-cal quantum eld theories, in particular three-dimensional Chern-Simons-Witten theory and its various generalizations. To this end we give an introduction to graph homology and homotopy algebras and the work of Vassiliev and Kontsevich on perturbative knot invariants.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007