v 1 2 4 A pr 1 99 5 A Link Invariant from Quantum Dilogarithm
The link invariant, arising from the cyclic quantum dilogarithm via the particular R-matrix construction, is proved to coincide with the invariant of triangulated links in S introduced in [14]. The obtained invariant, like Alexander-Conway polynomial, vanishes on disjoint union of links. The R-matrix can be considered as the cyclic analog of the universal R-matrix associated with Uq(sl(2)) algebra.
Remarks on the quantum dilogarithm
A quantum analogue of the dilogarithm function has been introduced by Faddeev and Kashaev (1994) in such a way that a certain identity in the Weyl algebra Wq, plays the role of the five-term dilogarithm identity. We study this identity in the limit when q approaches a root of unity and show that it then reduces to the 'restricted star-triangle relation' which has been used previously by Bazhanov and Baxter (1992) as a local integrability condition of a class of three-dimensional solvable lattice models.
Net Spaces in Categorical Topology a
In the paper we introduce the notion of S‐nets, S a nonempty construct, as a generalization of the usual nets. S‐net spaces and continuous maps between them are then defined in a natural way. For S‐net spaces we introduce a number of axioms and study the categories obtained. We find some topological and Cartesian closed categories of S‐net spaces and describe their relations to certain known topological categories.