From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5444 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: quantum groups in physics Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:05:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262223929 29773 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2009 01:45:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:45:29 +0000 (UTC) To: John Baez Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Thu Dec 31 02:45:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NQA6L-0000Fh-Kl for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1NQ9fP-0000XC-7q for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:17:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5444 Archived-At: 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 [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]