Temperley-Lieb Recoupling Theory and Invariants of 3-Manifolds (AM-134)
Louis H. Kauffman & Sostenes Lins

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1	Introduction	1
2	Bracket Polynomial, Temperley-Lieb Algebra	5
3	Jones-Wenzl Projectors	13
4	The 3-Vertex	22
5	Properties of Projectors and 3-Vertices	36
6	[theta]-Evaluations	45
7	Recoupling Theory Via Temperley-Lieb Algebra	60
8	Chromatic Evaluations and the Tetrahedron	76
9	A Summary of Recoupling Theory	93
10	A 3-Manifold Invariant by State Summation	102
11	The Shadow World	114
12	The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariant	129
13	Blinks [actual symbol not reproducible] 3-Gems: Recognizing 3-Manifolds	160
14	Tables of Quantum Invariants	185
	Bibliography	290
	Index	295

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