EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Witten's Integral and the Kontsevich Integrals
Speaker: Professor Louis Kauffman
Speaker Info: University of Illinois, Chicago
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Abstract:

This talk will show that the Kontsevich Integrals that are used to prove the existence of Vassiliev invariants of knots and links are the Feynman integrals for a pertubative expansion of Witten's functional integral. Witten's integral expresses link invariants via quantum field theory.

The talk will be self-contained, using elementary combinatorial topology, advanced calculus and faith.