A brief introduction to quantum groups

Abstract

These are lecture notes of a mini-course given by the first author in Moscow in July 2019, taken by the second author and then edited and expanded by the first author. They were also a basis of the lectures given by the first author at the CMSA Math Science Literature Lecture Series in May 2020. We attempt to give a bird's-eye view of basic aspects of the theory of quantum groups.

43 pages, latex, in v2 small misprints corrected