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Selected publications

Laurent Freidel is a French theoretical physicist. Main works are related to quantum gravity and mathematical formalisms related to attempts to study quantum gravity.

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Selected publications

On (universal) Vassiliev invariants and relation to perturbative Chern-Simons theory

• Daniel Altschuler, Laurent Freidel, On Universal Vassiliev Invariants, Commun. Math. Phys. 170 (1995) 41-62 [arXiv:hep-th/9403053, doi:10.1007/BF02099438]

• Daniel Altschuler, Laurent Freidel, Vassiliev knot invariants and Chern-Simons perturbation theory to all orders, Commun. Math. Phys. 187 (1997) 261-287 [arXiv:q-alg/9603010, doi:10.1007/s002200050136]

See also:

• Laurent Freidel, Shahn Majid, Noncommutative harmonic analysis, sampling theory and the Duflo map in 2+12+1 quantum gravity, Classical Quantum Gravity 25 (2008), no. 4, 045006 MR2009f:83058, doi

• Laurent Freidel, Group Field Theory: An overview, Int.J.Theor.Phys.44:1769-1783 (2005) arXiv:hep-th/0505016, doi

• Laurent Freidel, Etera R. Livine, The fine structure of SU(2)SU(2) intertwiners from U(N)U(N) representations, J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010), no. 8, 082502, MR2011j:81140, doi

• Laurent Freidel, Marc Geiller, Wolfgang Wieland, Corner symmetry and quantum geometry, in Handbook of Quantum Gravity, Springer (2023) arXiv:2302.12799

• John C. Baez, Aristide Baratin, Laurent Freidel, Derek K. Wise, Infinite-dimensional representations of 2-groups, arXiv

• Laurent Freidel, Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic, Quantum spaces are modular, Phys. Rev. D 94, 104052 (2016) arXiv:1606.01829 doi

• Laurent Freidel, Artem Starodubtsev, Quantum gravity in terms of topological observables, arXiv:hep-th/0501191