Quantum Groups from Path Integrals

Abstract

Lecture notes from the 1994 CRM-CAP Summer School ``Particles and Fields '94''. Covers material written elsewhere in a more leisurely fashion, including many exercises. Describes derivation of quantum groups from the Chern-Simons lagrangian for the case of a finite gauge group.

41 pages + 9 figures. This paper is written using AMSTeX 2.1, which can be obtained via ftp from the American Mathematical Society (instructions included).

References in corpus (1)

• Higher Algebraic Structures and Quantization

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