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

Quantum 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

Invariant theory

Knot theory

Quantum invariant