Combinatorics of the Teichmüller TQFT
Rinat Kashaev1
1 Section de mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 rue du Lièvre, 1211 Genève 4, Suisse
Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 3 (2016), Talk no. 2, 16 p.

Based on the lectures given by the author at the School on braids and low dimensional topology “Winter Braids VI”, University of Lille I, 22-25 February 2016, we review the combinatorics underlying the Teichmüller TQFT, a new type of three-dimensional TQFT with corners where the vector spaces associated with surfaces are infinite dimensional. The geometrical ingredients and the semi-classical behaviour suggest that this theory is related with hyperbolic geometry in dimension three.

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DOI: 10.5802/wbln.13
Rinat Kashaev 1

1 Section de mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 rue du Lièvre, 1211 Genève 4, Suisse 
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Rinat Kashaev. Combinatorics of the Teichmüller TQFT. Winter Braids Lecture Notes, Volume 3 (2016), Talk no. 2, 16 p. doi : 10.5802/wbln.13. https://proceedings.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/wbln.13/

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