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Surgical invariants of four-manifolds

B. Broda

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9302092

Abstract

A new topological invariant of closed connected orientable four-dimensional manifolds is proposed. The invariant, constructed via surgery on a special link, is a four-dimensional counterpart of the celebrated SU(2) three-manifold invariant of Reshetikhin, Turaev and Witten.

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