Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-12-10
J.Math.Phys. 35 (1994) 5314-5320
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
8 pages, Plaintex, NI 92015
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.530753
A brief review of a self-contained genuinely three-dimensional monodromy-matrix based non-perturbative covariant path-integral approach to {\it polynomial invariants} of knots and links in the framework of (topological) quantum Chern-Simons field theory is given. An idea of ``physical'' observables represented by an auxiliary topological quantum-mechanics model in an external gauge field is introduced substituting rather a limited notion of the Wilson loop. Thus, the possibility of using various generalizations of the Chern-Simons action (also higher-dimensional ones) as well as a purely functional language becomes open. The theory is quantized in the framework of the best suited in this case {\it antibracket-antifield} formalism of Batalin and Vilkovisky. Using the Stokes theorem and formal translational invariance of the path-integral measure a {\it monodromy matrix} corresponding to an arbitrary pair of irreducible representations of an arbitrary semi-simple Lie group is derived.
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