Ioannis P Zois
TRSC/PPC, Greece
Title: New invariants for 3-manifolds and non-commutative topological quantum field theories
Biography
Biography: Ioannis P Zois
Abstract
We define some new topological invariants for 3 manifolds using the moduli space of taut codim-1 foliations instead of the moduli space of flat connections. In order to construct the new topological invariants we use techniques from ordinary topology and from non-commutative geometry. This article is a sequel in our attempt to construct a non-commutative version of topological quantum field theories, the only known example of generally covariant quantum field theories.