A gauge-field approach to 3- and 4-manifold invariants
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The paper contains a talk given by the author at the Banach Center in Spring 1995. It recapitulates author's approach to construction of topological invariants of the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten type of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds in the framework of SU(2) Chern-Simons gauge theory and its hidden (quantum) gauge symmetry.
8 pages, tex, no figures (Talk given at the Symposium on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Banach Center, 1995), some points clarified and a drawing added
8 pages, tex, no figures (Talk given at the Symposium on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, Banach Center, 1995), some points clarified and a drawing added