Geometry & Topology Monographs 8 (2006) 145–166

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2006.8.145

arXiv: math.GT/0504495

Abstract

An overview of the perturbative expansion of the Chern–Simons path integral is given. The main goal is to describe how trivalent graphs appear: as they already occur in the perturbative expansion of an analogous finite-dimensional integral, we discuss this case in detail.

Keywords

Chern–Simons theory, Feynman path integral, perturbative expansion, trivalent graphs

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 81T18

Secondary: 57M27, 58J28, 81T13

References

Publication

Received: 10 December 2004
Revised: 25 April 2005
Accepted: 14 December 2004
Published: 22 April 2006

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