Jones polynomial and quantum topology
Polinomio de Jones y topología cuántica
- Date
- 1984 · confidence high
- Place
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Credited to
- Vaughan Jones; physical interpretation by Edward Witten (1989)
- People
- 👤 Vaughan Jones1952–2020
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A new knot invariant discovered from von Neumann algebras, which Witten reinterpreted using Chern-Simons quantum field theory. It opened up quantum topology and the relationship between knots and physics.
Jones and Witten received the Fields Medal in 1990.
What it led to
- quantum invariants
- Khovanov homology
- topological quantum computing
- knot theory applied to DNA