
arXiv: math/0504495
An overview of the perturbative expansion of the Chern--Simons path integral is given. The main goal is to describe how trivalent graphs appear: as they already occur in the perturbative expansion of an analogous finite-dimensional integral, we discuss this case in detail.
This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22 April 2006
Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Mathematics - Quantum Algebra, FOS: Mathematics, Quantum Algebra (math.QA), 81T18, 57M27, 58J28, 81T13, Geometric Topology (math.GT)
Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Mathematics - Quantum Algebra, FOS: Mathematics, Quantum Algebra (math.QA), 81T18, 57M27, 58J28, 81T13, Geometric Topology (math.GT)
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