Seminars and Colloquia by Series

The HOMFLY polynomial, the trilogarithm and zeta(3)

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, September 22, 2008 - 14:30 for 2 hours
Location
Room 322, Boyd Graduate Studies UGA
Speaker
Stavros GaroufalidisSchool of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
I will discuss a relation between the HOMFLY polynomial of a knot, its extension for a closed 3-manifold, a special function, the trilogarithm, and zeta(3).  Technically, this means that we consider perturbative U(N) Chern-Simons theory