Surgical invariants of four-manifolds
Abstract
Description
A new topological invariant of closed connected orientable four-dimensional manifolds is proposed. The invariant, constructed via surgery on a special link, is a four-dimensional counterpart of the celebrated SU(2) three-manifold invariant of Reshetikhin, Turaev and Witten.
8 pages, plaintex, Revised version (MARCH 1993): trivial factorization escaped
8 pages, plaintex, Revised version (MARCH 1993): trivial factorization escaped