Abstract
Reshetikhin and Turaev [10] gave a method to construct a topological invariant of compact oriented 3-manifolds from a ribbon Hopf algebra (e.g. a quantum group Uq(sl2)) using finite-dimensional representations of it. In this paper we give another independent method to construct a topological invariant of compact oriented 3-manifolds from a ribbon Hopf algebra via universal invariants of framed links without using representations of the algebra. For Uq(sl2) these two methods give different invariants of 3-manifolds.
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