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Quantum groups, skein theories, operadic and diagrammatic algebra, quantum field theory

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Why Drinfel'd-Jimbo-type quantum groups?

Hopf algebras are pretty easy to motivate, as a not-necessarily-commutative generalization of the ring of functions on an algebraic group (and there are many other ways in which they come up). I like …
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Can the Quantum Torus be realized as a Hall Algebra?

Background The Quantum Torus Let $q$ be an arbitrary complex number, and define (the algebra of) the quantum torus to be $$T_q:=\mathbb{C}\langle x^{\pm 1},y^{\pm 1}\rangle/xy-qyx$$ For $q=1$, this is …
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Why Drinfel'd-Jimbo-type quantum groups?

So, here's some of my own investigation into this. Define the n-th partial flag variety $Fl_n(\mathbb{C}^m)$ to be the set of all n-step partial flags $$F_0 \subseteq F_1 \subseteq ... \subseteq F_n …
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