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QUANTUM GROUPS
A PATH TO CURRENT ALGEBRA |
| By: |
Ross Street, Dr Michael Murray, Philip Broadbridge |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521695244 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521695244 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2007 |
| Series: |
Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series v. 19 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Quantum Groups: A Path to Current Algebra presents algebraic concepts and techniques. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
26 b/w illus. 25 exercises |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |