Speaker

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P. Dehornoy

Subject Area

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Mathematics

Venue

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Lecture Hall - I, Dept of Mathematics

Time

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4.00 pm

Date  

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February 4,2008 (Monday)

Title

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Lorenz knots and modular knots.

Yang-Mills gauge theory, classical as well as quantum, in two dimensions is both mathematically tractable and poses interesting questions. The quantum theory for the field has a mathematically precise formulation in terms of a Gaussian measure. Classical holonomies become group-valued random variables in this setting.
This talk will present an overview of some mathematical problems, solutions, and ideas arising from two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory.