Braid Group, Knot Theory And Statistical Mechanics

by Mo-lin Ge, Chen Ning Yang

Overview

"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

ISBN-13:	9789971508289
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/1989
Series:	Advanced Series In Mathematical Physics , #9
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)