Perturbative expansion of Chern-Simons theory
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We give an overview of the perturbative expansion of the ChernSimons path integral. The main goal is to describe how trivalent graphs appear: as they already occur in the perturbative expansion of an analogous finite-dimensional integral, we discuss this case in detail. AMS Classification 81T18; 57M27, 58J28, 81T13
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تاریخ انتشار 2005