Abstract
We give a Turaev-Viro type construction for the LMO invariant. More precisely, we construct an invariant of closed oriented 3-manifolds from data of their spines or their simplicial decompositions and the values of Kontsevich invariant of the unknotted tetrahedron and the Hopf link by using Bar-Natan and Thurston's operations.
Citation
Tadayuki Watanabe. "Knotted trivalent graphs and construction of the LMO invariant from triangulations." Osaka J. Math. 44 (2) 351 - 362, June 2007.
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