Quantum hyperbolic invariants of 3-manifolds with PSL(2, ℂ)-characters

Topology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1373-1423

  Baseilhac, Stéphane ^a,b   Benedetti, Riccardo ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic 3 manifolds; PSL(2, ) characters; Quantum dilogarithms; State sum invariants; Volume conjecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344676726     PISSN: 00409383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.top.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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