Knot at Lunch on November 28 2007

From Drorbn
Jump to: navigation, search

Invitation

Dear Knot at Lunch People,

We will have our next fall lunch on Wednesday November 28, at the usual place, Bahen 6180, at 12 noon.

As always, please bring brown-bag lunch and fresh ideas. The agenda: we may talk a bit about quantum groups, or we may talk about something else.

Further information about this meeting will/may appear at http://drorbn.net/drorbn/index.php?title=Knot_at_Lunch_on_November_28_2007.

As always, if you know anyone I should add to this mailing list or if you wish to be removed from this mailing list please let me know. To prevent junk accumulation in mailboxes, I will actively remove inactive people unless they request otherwise.

Best,

Dror.

Some Content

We may look at a part of page 817 of Drinfel'd's famed IMU "Quantum Groups" paper and at a part of page 208 of the Chari-Pressley book on "Quantum Groups". These excerpts are not reproduced here so as to be a good citizen and respect copyright laws, though I wish it was the norm in math (and in life in general) to have copyright/left policies such as my own.

Following that we may discuss

A Quantum Group is the thing whose representations form a "(strict) rigid braided monoidal category".

See what Wikipedia has to say: Quantum group, Monoidal category, Braided monoidal category.