Braid Group, Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics II

by Yang, C. N.; Ge, M. L.; Yang, C. N.

• ISBN13: 9789810215248
• ISBN10: 981021524X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword
On the Combinatorics of Vassiliev Invariants	p. 1
Solvable Models, Link Invariants and Their Applications to Physics	p. 20
The Yang-Baxter Symmetry in Field Theory	p. 70
Quantum Symmetry in Conformal Field Theory by Hamiltonian Methods	p. 108
Yang-Baxterization and Algebraic Structures	p. 130
Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation	p. 153
Notes on Subfactors and Statistical Mechanics	p. 177
Polynomial Invariants in Knot Theory	p. 202
Spin Networks, Topology and Discrete Physics	p. 234
Tunnel Numbers of Knots and Jones-Witten Invariants	p. 275
Symmetry Approach to Solvable Lattice Models	p. 294
Algebras of Loops on Surfaces, Algebras of Knots, and Quantization	p. 324
Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial	p. 361
Knot Invariants and Statistical Mechanics: A Physicist's Perspective	p. 452
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