The Kauffman bracket skein as an algebra of observables
Doug Bullock, Charles D. Frohman, Joanna Kania-Bartoszyńska
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Doug Bullock, Charles D. Frohman, Joanna Kania-Bartoszyńska
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We prove that the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a cylinder over a surface with boundary, defined over complex numbers, is isomorphic to the observables of an appropriate lattice gauge field theory.
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We prove that the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a cylinder over a surface with boundary, defined over complex numbers, is isomorphic to the observables of an appropriate lattice gauge field theory.
Key concepts: Skein, Bracket polynomial, Bracket, Observable, Algebra over a field, Mathematics, Pure mathematics, Physics