BRAID GROUP, KNOT THEORY &... (V9)

"The first volume might be especially useful for specialists in its subject, but it also contains good expositions for nonspecialists."
Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged)

Contents: Notes on Subfactors and Statistical Mechanics (V F R Jones); Polynomial Invariants in Knot Theory (L H Kauffman); Algebras of Loops on Surfaces, Algebras of Knots, and Quantization (V G Turaev); Quantum Groups (L Faddeev et al.); Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation (M Jimbo); Integrable Systems Related to Braid Groups and Yang-Baxter Equation (T Kohno); The Yang-Baxter Relation: A New Tool for Knot Theory (Y Akutsu et al.); Akutsu-Wadati Link Polynomials from Feynman-Kauffman Diagrams (M-L Ge et al.); Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial (E Witten)

Product details

• Authors: M L Ge C N Yang, Mo-Lin Ge, Chen Ning Yang
• Assisted by: C N Yang (Editor), M L Ge (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1989
• EAN: 9789971508333
• ISBN: 978-9971-5-0833-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous