Abstract
It is shown that the linking number of two surfaces of dimensionp andn−p−1 in ann dimensional manifold has a natural description in terms of the two-point funciton of a simple topological field theory. The two-point function of a more general theory (whose partition function yields the Ray-Singer torsion) provides a definition for a generalized linking number.
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