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 Garoufalidis – School 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