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Subfactors and Knots (Cbms Regional Conference Series in Mathematics) by Vaughan F R Jones; Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is based on a set of lectures presented by the author at the NSF-CBMS Regional Conference, Applications of Operator Algebras to Knot Theory and Mathematical Physics, held at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in June 1988. The audience consisted of low-dimensional topologists and operator algebraists, so the speaker attempted to make the material comprehensible to both groups. He provides an extensive introduction to the theory of von Neumann algebras and to knot theory and braid groups. The presentation follows the historical development of the theory of subfactors and the ensuing applications to knot theory, including full proofs of some of the major results. The author treats in detail the Homfly and Kauffman polynomials, introduces statistical mechanical methods on knot diagrams, and attempts an analogy with conformal field theory. Written by one of the foremost mathematicians of the day, this book will give readers an appreciation of the unexpected interconnections between different parts of mathematics and physics.

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Author
Vaughan F R Jones; Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences
Publisher
Published for the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society with support from the National Science Foundation
Published
1991
Language
EN
ISBN
9780821807293
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Mathematics, Stem

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