Questions tagged [reshetikhin-turaev]
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Relative strength of Jones and colored Jones polynomials
this is my first post here.
I've been studying some Knot Theory and I came to a question concerning invariants.
We know that the Jones polynomial is related to the RT-invariant associated to the two-...
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Lagrangian of Reshetikhin-Turaev TFT's
One of the results from the Reshetikhin-Turaev package is that given a modular tensor category $\mathscr{C}$ one can construct a TFT $Z$. In the case where $\mathscr{C}$ is the category of positive ...
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Fully extended TQFT and lattice models
I often read that fully extended TQFTs are supposed to classify topological phases of matter. So I would like to understand the formal nature of fully extended TQFTs on a more direct physical level (...
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Are Turaev-Viro invariants holonomic?
Consider a 3-manifold $M$ with a boundary, which is a genus $g\geq 1$ surface $\Sigma$. Fix a triangulation $T$ of $\Sigma$. Then Turaev-Viro invariants $TV_q(M)$ are functions, assigning to integer ...
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Can non-chiral 3D TQFTs be extended to non-orientable manifolds whereas chiral ones cannot?
As far as I know, when talking about TQFT, one usually means TQFTs on oriented manifolds with boundary (cobordisms)
It appears to me that the Turaev-Viro-Barrett-Westbury state-sum construction can ...
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Can the ribbon category of f.d. reps of $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2))$ be modified so the twist is trivial on the vector representation?
Consider the ribbon category of finite-dimensional representations of $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2))$, with twist $\theta$. If $V$ is the vector representation, then $\theta_V$ is multiplication by $...
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Brauer-Picard for a fusion category coming from a quantum group
In Fusion Categories and Homotopy Theory, ENO attatch a 3-groupoid to a fusion category. In the case of A graded vector spaces they further compute it's truncation as an orthogonal group $O(A \...
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Why are Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants expected to be integral?
A Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (WRT) Invariant $\tau_{M,L}^G(\xi)\in\mathbb{C}$ is an invariant of closed oriented 3-manifold $M$ containing a framed link $L$, where $G$ is a simple Lie group, and $\xi$ ...
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Categorification of WRT invariants of integral homology spheres
First, I would like to know how many definitions are there for categorification of WRT invariants. In addition, I wonder if the categorified version of WRT invariants have been explicitly computed for ...
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How do quantum knot invariants change when I pick a funny ribbon element?
So, there's a construction of Reshetikhin and Turaev which extracts knot invariants from ribbon monoidal categories, which are (usually) the representation category a Hopf algebra with a choice of ...
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What's the best reference for actual formulas for RT invariants?
If one really wants to understand the formulas for how to construct the Reshetikhin-Turaev 3-manifold invariants coming from quantum groups in terms of R-matrices and such, what's the best reference ...
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