From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
To: John Baez <john.c.baez@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: quantum groups in physics
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:05:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NQ9fP-0000XC-7q@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NPyjI-0001HW-1R@mailserv.mta.ca>
John Baez wrote:
>
> On the other hand, it's been known in theoretical physics ever since the
> work of Witten, Reshetihkin and Turaev that Chern-Simons theory can be
> described in a purely algebraic way using quantum groups!
Can you give me a clue as to how quantum groups enter
since
Chern-Simons theory can be
described in a purely algebraic way
for ordinary Lie groups
do you mean just that
Chern-Simons theory
described in a purely algebraic way
extends to quqantum groups?
jim
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2009-12-28 23:40 John Baez
2009-12-30 14:05 ` jim stasheff [this message]
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2009-12-31 1:46 ` John Baez
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