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SO(3) quantum invariants are dense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2009

HELEN WONG
HELEN WONG*
Affiliation:
Dept of Mathematics, Carleton College, 1 North College St Northfield, MN 55057 e-mail: hwong@carleton.edu
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Abstract

We show that when r ≥ 5 is prime, the SO(3) Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev quantum invariants for three-manifolds at the level r form a dense set in the complex plane. This confirms a conjecture of Larsen and Wang.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 148 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 289 - 295
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2009

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