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What is a quantum invariant?
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Eric Samperton, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Jan 21 2014, 2:10PM |
We will discuss ribbon tensor categories, the universality of the ribbon category and how to construct invariants of links from this data. We will mention some examples of ribbon tensor categories and do some computations in a specific one to show how these invariants generalize classical counting invariants.