- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Monday, September 22, 2008 - 2:30pm for 2 hours
- Location
- Room 322, Boyd Graduate Studies UGA
- Speaker
- Stavros Garoufalidis – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- John Etnyre
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 around the trivial flat connection, for all N, in an ambient 3-manifold. This is rigorous, and joint with Marcos Marino and Thang Le.