Wilson loop invariants from WN conformal blocks

Knot and link polynomials are topological invariants calculated from the expectation value of loop operators in topological field theories. In 3D Chern–Simons theory, these invariants can be found from crossing and braiding matrices of four-point conformal blocks of the boundary 2D CFT. We calculate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oleg Alekseev, Fábio Novaes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321315003776