Lectures on Tensor Categories and Modular Functors (University Lecture Series)

by Alexander Kirillov Jr (Author), Bojko Bakalov (Author)

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  2001

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  Gives an exposition of the relations among the following three topics: monoidal tensor categories (such as a category of representations of a quantum group), 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory, and 2-dimensional modular functors (which naturally arise in 2-dimensional conformal field theory).