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CHERN–SIMONS–WITTEN CONFIGURATION SPACE INTEGRALS IN KNOT THEORY

CHUN-CHUNG HSIEH

Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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SU-WIN YANG

Mathematics Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216505004032Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In the context of perturbative quantum field theory, we express the first non-vanishing Massey–Milnor linkings in terms of Chern–Simons–Witten configuration space integrals in knot theory.

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