Skein Quantization and Lattice Gauge Field Theory
q-alg
2008-02-03 v1 Quantum Algebra
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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@article{arxiv.q-alg/9609024,
title = {Skein Quantization and Lattice Gauge Field Theory},
author = {Doug Bullock and Charles Frohman and Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-alg/9609024},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
LaTeX2e v1.2, requires epsfig package, 16 pages, 22 figures inserted repeatedly