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    Deligne-Beilinson cohomology and abelian link invariants: torsion case

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    For the abelian Chern-Simons field theory, we consider the quantum functional integration over the Deligne-Beilinson cohomology classes and present an explicit path-integral non-perturbative computation of the Chern-Simons link invariants in SO(3)≃RP3SO(3)\simeq\mathbb{R}P^3, a toy example of 3-manifold with torsion
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