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We propose an algebraic formulation for two distinct quantum algorithms: a quantum classification algorithm and a quantum search algorithm with a non-uniform initial distribution, both based on Clifford algebras and spinorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Lauro Mascarenhas , Vinicius N. A. Lula-Rocha , Marco A. S. Trindade

This expository essay is aimed at introducing the Jones polynomial. We will see the encapsulation of the Jones polynomial, which will involve topics in functional analysis and geometrical topology; making this essay an interdisciplinary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Monica Queen

Here is a list of chapters: 1 Introduction 2 Notation and preliminaries Part I: Finite quantum groups 3 2x2 Matrix quantum groups and the quantum plane 4 Quantum enveloping algebras at a root of unity Part II: q-Oscillators 5…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Jens-U. H. Petersen

We start with the consideration of fusion rules of anyonic particles evolving on a 2D surface and the a hypergroup comes with it to construct entangled quantum Markov chains. The fusion rules induce an association scheme with Krein…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Radhakrishnan Balu

We apply the mechanism of factorization homology to construct and compute category-valued two-dimensional topological field theories associated to braided tensor categories, generalizing the $(0,1,2)$-dimensional part of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-15 David Ben-Zvi , Adrien Brochier , David Jordan

The integral Burau representation provides a map from the braid group into a group of integral matrices. This allows for a definition of congruence subgroups of the braid group as the preimage of the usual principal congruence subgroups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jessica Appel , Wade Bloomquist , Katie Gravel , Annie Holden

We introduce an algebraic theory of integration on quantum planes and other braided spaces. In the one dimensional case we obtain a novel picture of the Jackson $q$-integral as indefinite integration on the braided group of functions in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Kempf , Shahn Majid

These are lecture notes from a lecture series given at CIRM in the Fall 2023. They give a down-to-earth introduction to Khovanov and Seidel's categorical representation of Artin-Tits groups, emphasizing the fact that it is all explicitly…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Hoel Queffelec

We establish an identification between the spaces of $\alpha$-fusion trees in non-semisimple topological quantum computation (NSS TQC) and a family of homological representations of the braid group known as the Lawrence representations…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Sung Kim

In this note, a new class of representations of the braid groups $B_{N}$ is constructed. It is proved that those representations contain three kinds of irreducible representations: the trivial (identity) one, the Burau one, and an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Dian-Min Tong , Shan-De Yang , Zhong-Qi Ma

We construct, using the quantum dilogarithm, a series of *-representations of quantized cluster varieties. This includes a construction of infinite dimensional unitary projective representations of their discrete symmetry groups - the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-13 V. V. Fock , A. B. Goncharov

We present a new model of quantum computation rooted in the representation theory of the mass less sector of unitary irreducible representations of the extended Poincare group developed in [1].

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Marco Zaopo

The theory of bottom tangles is used to construct a quantum fundamental group. On the other hand, the skein module is considered as a quantum analogue of the $SL(2)$ representation of the fundamental group. Here we construct the skein…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jun Murakami , Roland van der Veen

We extend our method to compute division polynomials of Jacobians of curves over Q to curves over Q(t), in view of computing mod ell Galois representations occurring in the \'etale cohomology of surfaces over Q. Although the division…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Nicolas Mascot

We define and study representations of quantum toroidal $gl_n$ with natural bases labeled by plane partitions with various conditions. As an application, we give an explicit description of a family of highest weight representations of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-04-25 B. Feigin , M. Jimbo , T. Miwa , E. Mukhin

The topic of this thesis is the development of a versatile and geometrically motivated differential calculus on non-commutative or quantum spaces, providing powerful but easy-to-use mathematical tools for applications in physics and related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Peter Schupp

The physical interpretation of the main notions of the quantum group theory (coproduct, representations and corepresentations, action and coaction) is discussed using the simplest examples of $q$-deformed objects (quantum group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 P. P. Kulish

We present a general theory of braided quantum groups in the C*-algebraic framework using the language of multiplicative unitaries. Starting with a manageable multiplicative unitary in the representation category of the quantum codouble of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Sutanu Roy

The repertoire of problems theoretically solvable by a quantum computer recently expanded to include the approximate evaluation of knot invariants, specifically the Jones polynomial. The experimental implementation of this evaluation,…

An algebraic system is proposed that represent surface cobordisms in thickened surfaces. Module and comodule structures over Frobenius algebras are used for representing essential curves. The proposed structure gives a unified algebraic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-06 J. Scott Carter , Masahico Saito