Quantum invariant

In the mathematical field of knot theory, a quantum knot invariant or quantum invariant of a knot or link is a linear sum of colored Jones polynomial of surgery presentations of the knot complement.

List of invariants

• Finite type invariant
• Kontsevich invariant
• Kashaev's invariant
• Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant (Chern–Simons)
• Invariant differential operator
• Rozansky–Witten invariant
• Vassiliev knot invariant
• Dehn invariant
• LMO invariant
• Turaev–Viro invariant
• Dijkgraaf–Witten invariant
• Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant
• Tau-invariant
• I-Invariant
• Klein J-invariant
• Quantum isotopy invariant
• Ermakov–Lewis invariant
• Hermitian invariant
• Goussarov–Habiro theory of finite-type invariant
• Linear quantum invariant (orthogonal function invariant)
• Murakami–Ohtsuki TQFT
• Generalized Casson invariant
• Casson-Walker invariant
• Khovanov–Rozansky invariant
• HOMFLY polynomial
• K-theory invariants
• Atiyah–Patodi–Singer eta invariant
• Link invariant
• Casson invariant
• Seiberg–Witten invariants
• Gromov–Witten invariant
• Arf invariant
• Hopf invariant

See also

• Invariant theory
• Framed knot
• Chern–Simons theory
• Algebraic geometry
• Seifert surface
• Geometric invariant theory

References

Further reading

External links

• Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds By Vladimir G. Turaev