Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2003-10-22
J.Math.Phys. 46 (2005) 122302
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
To appear in Journal of Mathematical Physics vol.46 issue 12. Available on http://link.aip.org/link/jmapaq/v46/i12
Scientific paper
We study the Chern-Simons topological quantum field theory with an inhomogeneous gauge group, a non-semi-simple group obtained from a semi-simple one by taking its semi-direct product with its Lie algebra. We find that the standard knot observables (i.e. traces of holonomies along knots) essentially vanish, but yet, the non-semi-simplicity of our gauge group allows us to consider a class of un-orthodox observables which breaks gauge invariance at one point and which lead to a non-trivial theory on long knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We have two main morals : 1. In the non-semi-simple case, there is more to observe in Chern-Simons theory! There might be other interesting non semi-simple gauge groups to study in this context beyond our example. 2. In our case of an inhomogeneous gauge group, we find that Chern-Simons theory with the un-orthodox observable is actually the same as 3D BF theory with the Cattaneo-Cotta-Ramusino-Martellini knot observable. This leads to a simplification of their results and enables us to generalize and solve a problem they posed regarding the relation between BF theory and the Alexander-Conway polynomial. Our result is that the most general knot invariant coming from pure BF topological quantum field theory is in the algebra generated by the coefficients of the Alexander-Conway polynomial.
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