Yuka U. Taylor, Christopher T. Woodward
Published 2004-06-11, updated 2004-06-13Version 2
Motivated by the Turaev-Viro invariant of 3-manifolds, we construct a formal topological invariant of closed, oriented 3-manifolds involving spherical tetrahedra as an application of the asymptotic formula of 6j symbols for the Quantum Enveloping Algebra of sl(2). This invariant can be considered as a spherical version of a formal invariant of Ponzano-Regge and Korepanov defined via Euclidean tetrahedra.
Comments: 18 pages, 3 figures
Asymptotic Behavior of Colored Jones polynomial and Turaev-Viro Invariant of figure eight knot
Euclidean tetrahedra and knot invariants
Periods, the meromorphic 3D-index and the Turaev--Viro invariant
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