Skein Quantization and Lattice Gauge Field Theory

Abstract

This is a survey article describing the various ways in which the Kauffman bracket skein module is a quantization of surface group characters. These include a purely heuristic sense of deformation of a presentation, a Poisson quantization, and a lattice gauge field theory quantization.

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• Spiders for rank 2 Lie algebras
• Two dimensional lattice gauge theory based on a quantum group