{
  "id": "math/0406228",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2004-06-11T02:30:55.000Z",
  "updated": "2004-06-13T02:13:15.000Z",
  "title": "Spherical Tetrahedra and Invariants of 3-manifolds",
  "authors": [
    "Yuka U. Taylor",
    "Christopher T. Woodward"
  ],
  "comment": "18 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2004-06-13T02:13:15.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M27"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "spherical tetrahedra",
      "turaev-viro invariant",
      "euclidean tetrahedra",
      "quantum enveloping algebra",
      "formal topological invariant"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 18,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2004math......6228T"
    }
  }
}