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This book offers a self-contained account of the 3-manifold invariants arising from the original Jones polynomial. These are the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev and the Turaev-Viro invariants. Starting from the Kauffman bracket model for the Jones polynomial and the diagrammatic Temperley-Lieb algebra, higher-order polynomial invariants of links are constructed and combined to form the 3-manifold invariants. The methods in this book are based on a recoupling theory for the Temperley-Lieb algebra. This recoupling theory is a q-deformation of the SU(2) spin networks of Roger Penrose. The recoupling theory is developed in a purely combinatorial and elementary manner. Calculations are based on a reformulation of the Kirillov-Reshetikhin shadow world, leading to expressions for all the invariants in terms of state summations on 2-cell complexes. Extensive tables of the invariants are included. Manifolds in these tables are recognized by surgery presentations and by means of 3-gems (graph encoded 3-manifolds) in an approach pioneered by Sostenes Lins. The appendices include information about gems, examples of distinct manifolds with the same invariants, and applications to the Turaev-Viro invariant and to the Crane-Yetter invariant of 4-manifolds.

Drie-menigvuldigheden (Topologie) --- Knopentheorie --- Knot theory --- Noeuds [Theorie des ] --- Three-manifolds (Topology) --- Trois-variétés (Topologie) --- Knot theory. --- Algebraic topology --- Invariants --- Mathematics --- Invariants (Mathematics) --- Invariants. --- 3-manifolds (Topology) --- Manifolds, Three dimensional (Topology) --- Three-dimensional manifolds (Topology) --- Low-dimensional topology --- Topological manifolds --- Knots (Topology) --- 3-manifold. --- Addition. --- Algorithm. --- Ambient isotopy. --- Axiom. --- Backslash. --- Barycentric subdivision. --- Bijection. --- Bipartite graph. --- Borromean rings. --- Boundary parallel. --- Bracket polynomial. --- Calculation. --- Canonical form. --- Cartesian product. --- Cobordism. --- Coefficient. --- Combination. --- Commutator. --- Complex conjugate. --- Computation. --- Connected component (graph theory). --- Connected sum. --- Cubic graph. --- Diagram (category theory). --- Dimension. --- Disjoint sets. --- Disjoint union. --- Elaboration. --- Embedding. --- Equation. --- Equivalence class. --- Explicit formula. --- Explicit formulae (L-function). --- Factorial. --- Fundamental group. --- Graph (discrete mathematics). --- Graph embedding. --- Handlebody. --- Homeomorphism. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Identity element. --- Intersection form (4-manifold). --- Inverse function. --- Jones polynomial. --- Kirby calculus. --- Line segment. --- Linear independence. --- Matching (graph theory). --- Mathematical physics. --- Mathematical proof. --- Mathematics. --- Maxima and minima. --- Monograph. --- Natural number. --- Network theory. --- Notation. --- Numerical analysis. --- Orientability. --- Orthogonality. --- Pairing. --- Pairwise. --- Parametrization. --- Parity (mathematics). --- Partition function (mathematics). --- Permutation. --- Poincaré conjecture. --- Polyhedron. --- Quantum group. --- Quantum invariant. --- Recoupling. --- Recursion. --- Reidemeister move. --- Result. --- Roger Penrose. --- Root of unity. --- Scientific notation. --- Sequence. --- Significant figures. --- Simultaneous equations. --- Smoothing. --- Special case. --- Sphere. --- Spin network. --- Summation. --- Symmetric group. --- Tetrahedron. --- The Geometry Center. --- Theorem. --- Theory. --- Three-dimensional space (mathematics). --- Time complexity. --- Tubular neighborhood. --- Two-dimensional space. --- Vector field. --- Vector space. --- Vertex (graph theory). --- Winding number. --- Writhe.