PIRSA ID: 17010064
Series: Quantum Matter Mathematical Physics
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Quantum Matter Mathematical Physics
End date: 2017-01-10
Speaker(s): Yunxiang Ren Vanderbilt University
Motivated by the question about reconstructing a Conformal field theory from the data of a subfactor of finite index, Jones studied the continuous limit of the periodic quantum spin chain which Thompson group acts on. Based on planar algebras, the topological axiomatization of subfactors, we will illustrate the idea of the correspondence between the skein theory of planar algebras and presentation of Thompson groups.