Quantum Topology / Hopf Algebra Seminar
Louis H. Kauffman
UIC
Hopf Algebras and Link Invariants
Abstract: This talk is an introduction to the relationships between Hopf algebras
and topological invariants of knots and links. The talk continues from
last week and will be devoted to showing how some
solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation arise from relatively simple
representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra, and how these same
representations can be used to motivate the definition of the sl(2)_{q}
quantum group (Hopf algebra).
Tuesday September 1, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 512