Rings with Topologies Induced by Spaces of Functions

The paper contains the proof, in dimension 2, of a conjecture of R. G. Douglas and V. Paulsen concerning the characterization of the ideals of polynomials which are closed in the relative topology induced by the Hardy space of the polydisk.Comment: LATE

Compact Perturbations of Fredholm n-tuples

The paper gives a negative answer to the question whether one can perturb a Fredholm pair of index 0 by compact operators to a pair with exact Koszul complex.Comment: LATE

Topological quantum field theory with corners based on the Kauffman bracket

The paper contains the construction of a topological quantum field theory with corners that underlies the smooth topological quantum field theory of Lickorish. Among other things, a contraction formula for diagrams is proved, the presence of the skein relation at the level of manifolds with boundary is shown and an explanation for the surgery formula for invariants of closed manifolds is given.Comment: Latex, 28 pages, 39 figure

Noncommutative trigonometry and the A-polynomial of the trefoil knot

The paper shows the computation of the noncommutative generalization of the A-polynomial of the trefoil knot. The classical A-polynomial was introduced by Cooper, Culler, Gillet, Long and Shalen, and was generalized to the context of Kauffman bracket skein modules by the author in joint work with Frohman and Lofaro. A major step in determining the noncommutative version of the A-polynomial of the trefoil is the description of the action of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the torus on the skein module of the knot complement. As such, the computation reduces to operations with noncommutative trigonometric functions.Comment: LATEX, 7 figure

On the relation between the A-polynomial and the Jones polynomial

In previous joint work with Frohman and Lofaro a noncommutative generalization of the A-polynomial of a knot was introduced, consisting of a finitely generated ideal of polynomials (the noncommutative A-ideal) in the quantum plane. The present paper shows that the noncommutative A-ideal of a knot, together with finitely many of its colored Jones polynomials determines all other colored Jones polynomials. Also, for particular knots, such as the unknot and the trefoil, the noncommutative A-ideal completely determines all colored Jones polynomials.Comment: LATEX, 6 page

On the holomorphic point of view in the theory of quantum knot invariants

In this paper we describe progress made toward the construction of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev theory of knot invariants from the geometric point of view. This is done in the perspective of a joint result of the author with A. Uribe which relates the quantum group and the Weyl quantizations of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the tours. Two results are emphasized: the reconstruction from Weyl quantization of the restriction to the torus of the modular functor, and a description of a basis of the space of quantum observables on the torus in terms of colored curves, which answers a question related to quantum computing

Topological Hilbert Nullstellensatz for Bergman Spaces

The results in the paper are related to the classification problem for invariant subspaces of multiplication operators in several variables. The main results consist of characterizations, in the two dimensional case, of ideals of polynomials and analytic functions which are closed in the relative topology induced by Bergman spaces on certain domains. This provides proofs of the Bergman space analogues of a conjecture of R. G. Douglas and V. Paulsen.Comment: LATE

A product-to-sum formula for the quantum group of SL(2,C)

The paper exhibits a product-to-sum formula for the observables of a certain quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus. This quantization was defined using the topological quantum field theory that was developed by Reshetikhin and Turaev from the quantum group of SL(2,C) at roots of unity. As a corollary it is shown that the algebra of quantum observables is a subalgebra of the noncommutative torus with rational rotation angle. The proof uses topological quantum field theory with corners, and is based on the description of the matrices of the observables in a canonical basis of the Hilbert space of the quantization.Comment: Latex, 10 pages, 2 figure

The topological quantum field theory of Riemann's theta functions

In this paper we prove the existence and uniqueness of a topological quantum field theory that incorporates, for all Riemann surfaces, the corresponding spaces of theta functions and the actions of the Heisenberg groups and modular groups on them.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure

Classical theta functions from a quantum group perspective

In this paper we construct the quantum group, at roots of unity, of abelian Chern-Simons theory. We then use it to model classical theta functions and the actions of the Heisenberg and modular groups on them