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Building Blocks in Turaev-Viro Theory

Radu Ionicioiu

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9611024

Abstract

We study the form of the Turaev-Viro partition function Z(M) for different 3-manifolds with boundary. We show that for S2 boundaries Z(M) factorizes into a term which contains the boundary dependence and another which depends only on the topology of the underlying manifold. From this follows easily the formula for the connected sum of two manifolds Z(M # N). For general Tg boundaries this factorization holds only in a particular case.

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