Pure Math Graduate Student Seminar: Reeshad Arian, NC State, RT invariance of 3 manifolds
SAS 2235Ed Witten's papers in 1988 drew out the connection between Jones Polynomials of Knots and Chern-Simons theory of 3-dimensional TQFT. Following his work, Reshetikhin and Turaev formulated invariants of 3-manifolds…