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Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the UniverseWPI

IPMU Mathematics and Physics seminar

Date: November 20, 2008, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B, Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo
Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin (UC Berkeley & Amsterdam)
Title: Quantum groups at roots of unity and invariants of links
Abstract: Quantized universal enveloping algebras specialized at a primitive $\ell$-th root of unity has a large central Hopf subalgebra generated by $\ell$-th powers of Cartan subalgebra and of root elements. This talk will start with an overview of some basic facts about quantized $sl_2$ at roots of unity and its braiding properties. Then it will be used to construct invariants of links with the gauge class of generic $sl_2(C)$ flat connection in the complement. At the end the limit $\ell\to \infty$ will be discussed.

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