Introduction to Quantum Groups and Crystal Bases (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: February 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780821828748
Subjects: Algebra; Algebraic geometry; Applied mathematics; Crystallography; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; Algebra - Linear; General; Quantum groups; Representations of groups
First sentence: The notion of a quantum group was introduced by V. G. Drinfel'd and M. Jimbo, independently, in their study of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation arising from two-dimensional solvable lattice models ([10, 23]).