Quantum Topology - Proceedings Of The Conference

Download or read book Quantum Topology - Proceedings Of The Conference written by David N Yetter and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1994-08-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the conference on quantum topology, held at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 24 - 28 March 1993.Quantum topology is a rapidly growing field of mathematics dealing with the recently discovered interactions between low-dimensional topology, the theory of quantum groups, category theory, C∗-algebra theory, gauge theory, conformal and topological field theory and statistical mechanics. The conference, attended by over 60 mathematicians and theoretical physicists from Canada, Denmark, England, France, Japan, Poland and the United States, was highlighted by lecture series given by Louis Kauffman, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago and Nicholai Reshetikhin, Univ. of Califonia, Berkeley.