Quantum Groups : A Path to Current Algebra Paperback / softback
by Ross (Professor Emeritus, Macquarie University, Sydney) Street
Part of the Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Algebra has moved well beyond the topics discussed in standard undergraduate texts on 'modern algebra'.
Those books typically dealt with algebraic structures such as groups, rings and fields: still very important concepts!
However Quantum Groups: A Path to Current Algebra is written for the reader at ease with at least one such structure and keen to learn algebraic concepts and techniques.
A key to understanding these new developments is categorical duality.
A quantum group is a vector space with structure. Part of the structure is standard: a multiplication making it an 'algebra'.
Another part is not in those standard books at all: a comultiplication, which is dual to multiplication in the precise sense of category theory, making it a 'coalgebra'.
While coalgebras, bialgebras and Hopf algebras have been around for half a century, the term 'quantum group', along with revolutionary new examples, was launched by Drinfel'd in 1986.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 25 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780521695244
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 25 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521695244
