Quantum character varieties

2023/09/12 by Jordan, David
#FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.06543

Abstract

In this survey article for the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition, I give an introduction to quantum character varieties and quantum character stacks, with an emphasis on the unification between four different approaches to their construction.

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