1998 seminars


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Carlos Florentino, Instituto Superior Técnico


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Paulo Almeida, Instituto Superior Técnico


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Roger Picken, Instituto Superior Técnico


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Rui Vilela Mendes, Grupo de Física Matemática, Universidade de Lisboa


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Roger Picken, Instituto Superior Técnico

Quantum holonomies in $(2+1)$-dimensional gravity and quantum matrix pairs

In this talk we describe some recent results relating, on the one hand, to a method of quantizing a model of gravity in two space and one time dimensions, and on the other, to an algebraic structure - quantum matrix pairs - appearing in this context, which has many similarities with quantum groups.

References:

  1. J. E. Nelson and R. F. Picken, Quantum holonomies in (2+1)-dimensional gravity, gr-qc/9911005.
  2. J. E. Nelson and R. F. Picken, Quantum matrix pairs, math.QA/9911015.


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Paulo Semião, Universidade do Algarve


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Nuno Romão, Cambridge University


Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Louis Crane, Kansas State University, USA