Moduli Spaces Of Curves Mapping Class Groups And Field Theory

Download or read book Moduli Spaces of Curves, Mapping Class Groups and Field Theory written by Xavier Buff and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It concludes with a study of the canonical Galois action on the fundamental groupoids, computed using Grothendick-Teichmuller theory. Finally, Chapter 3 studies strict ribbon categories, which are closely related to braided tensor categories: here they are used to construct invariants of 3-manifolds which in turn give rise to quantum field theories."--BOOK JACKET.