Wilson Surfaces and Higher Dimensional Knot Invariants
โ Scribed by Alberto S. Cattaneo; Carlo A. Rossi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Volume
- 256
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-3616
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
State-sum invariants for knotted curves and surfaces using quandle cohomology were introduced by Laurel Langford and the authors (Quandle cohomology and state-sum invariants of knotted curves and surfaces, preprint). In this paper we present methods to compute the invariants and sample computations.
The ideas of this paper were suggested by the formal likeness between Mumford's toric description of degenerating families of elliptic curves (in [A]) and parabolic Inoue surfaces (first constructed in [In]). The likeness is not readily apparent from [In] but is pointed out in [MO], where a toric co