The Link Invariants of the Chern-Simons Field Theory: New Developments in Topological Quantum Field Theory - 10 (Reprint 2011.)

In the Chern-Simons model, the applicability of topological arguments is not restricted to a region in which the semiclassical approximation is valid.

In fact, no kind of approximation is necessary at all.

The author discusses basic notions of knot theory, framing in field theory, non-abelian Chern-Simons theory, observables and perturbation theory