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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date
October 1, 2001
Pages
770
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
3 sub
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9789810241117
ISBN-10
9810241119
Dimensions
1.75 by 6.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight
2.55 lbs.
Published in
Other
Original list price
$191.00
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalised amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot theory and its relations with these subjects. This stance has the advantage of providing direct access to the algebra and to the combinatorial topology, as well as physical ideas.The book is divided into two parts: Part I is a systematic course on knots and physics starting from the ground up, and Part II is a set of lectures on various topics related to Part I. Part II includes topics such as frictional properties of knots, relations with combinatorics, and knots in dynamical systems.In this third edition, a paper by the author entitled "Knot Theory and Functional Integration" has been added. This paper shows how the Kontsevich integral approach to the Vassiliev invariants is directly related to the perturbative expansion of Witten's functional integral. While the book supplies the background, this paper can be read independently as an introduction to quantum field theory and knot invariants and their relation to quantum gravity. As in the second edition, there is a selection of papers by the author at the end of the book. Numerous clarifying remarks have been added to the text.
Editions
Hardcover
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3 sub edition from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (October 1, 2001)
9789810241117 | details & prices | 770 pages | 6.50 × 8.75 × 1.75 in. | 2.55 lbs | List price $191.00
About: This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalised amplitudes for a quasi-physical process.
About: This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalised amplitudes for a quasi-physical process.
2 edition from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (May 1, 1994)
9789810216566 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 2.45 lbs | List price $122.00
About: This book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes (vacuum-vacuum amplitudes) for a quasi-physical process.
About: This book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes (vacuum-vacuum amplitudes) for a quasi-physical process.
Paperback
3 edition from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (September 1, 2001)
9789810241124 | details & prices | 770 pages | 6.25 × 8.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.30 lbs | List price $99.00
2 edition from World Scientific Pub Co Inc (October 1, 1991)
9789810216580 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 2.50 lbs | List price $45.00
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