This construction should define an invariant for colored tangled trivalent graphs. 


1. Choose a quantum group G. (Without loss of geniality, G=A1(q) :-)
2. Color the edges with representations of G.
3. The representation 1 is "invisible"!
4. Assign to each trivalent node Y a Clebsch. (Yes, you told me, for 
general G these are not necessarily known.)
5. Throw in some spin and phase factors for elegance. They are not really
required, but e.g. if the down leg of the Y is colored with 1, graphically
(remember 3.!) you have a cap. And it's nice to have cap=cup, and since
cap\*cup=$\delta$ this requires some phase fumbling.
6. As formula: If the Y is colored with the representations J1,J2,J3
and the tensor indices of Y are m1,m2,m3 then  

$Y=Clebsch{[j1j2m1m2|j3m3]}(-1)^{(j1+j2-j3)/2}({[2j1+1]\*[2j2+1]/[2j3+1]})^{1/4}$
7. I can't give a formula for the R matrices in terms of the Y tensors yet,
because I would need the R-symbols (see e.g. math-qa1004.5456v2), i.e. the
eigenvalues of the R matrices. (Side Question: Are these generally known for
given G? For A1, at least, they are easy.)
8. In any case, the only :-) thing effectively to prove in this approach would be an
overfiendish identity as an integral over 15 Legendre polynomials. Assuming you
know the Clebsches and the R-symbols for G, of course. This is not completely
wishful thinking - most 3j/6j identities translate to interesting graph identities.(Essentially the construction which I asked about here [Matrix decomposition the other way](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/65332/matrix-decomposition-the-other-way) can be used to patch R matrices from Y tensors.)


OK, here comes the real question. Assuming that 8 follows from some magic property of Clebsches, and my sketchy construction would be made mathematically exact, would I have done something new? Or is this just equivalent to a "dummyfication"
of Reshitikhine-Turaev/Turaev-Viro? (Invent. Math. 92, 527-553 (1988) and so on)  

Or to specialize to A1 again, is the colored Jones polynomial generalizable as an invariant of tangled trivalent graphs? 



Quantum knot invariants dummyfied
Assuming that you've gotten the details right (I certainly haven't checked your normalizations), and modulo the issue that working out the explicit 6j's and R's for a general quantum group is hard, this is exactly the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of knotted trivalent graphs.


NB: There are two different constructions called Reshetikhin-Turaev (they have exactly two joint papers): one is invariants of knotted trivalent graphs (and in particular knots) attached to any ribbon category (and in particular quantum groups), the other is invariants of 3-manifolds coming from quantum groups *at roots of unity*. What you're describing here is the former construction (Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 127, Number 1 (1990), 1-26). (Edit: I thought originally that your reference was to RT's other paper, since that's in Inventiones. But now I see it's one of Turaev's earlier papers on the knot invariants part.)


