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Chern-Simons theory is a topological gauge theory in three dimensions which describes knot and three-manifold invariants.

There is a correspondence to topological string theory, which is related to Gromov-Witten invariants.


See also

Chern-Simons form


References

Chern-simons Theory, Matrix Models, And Topological Strings (International Series of Monographs on Physics, Marcos Marino, OUP, 2005