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Rado Lecture - Vaughan Jones

Vaughan Jones
October 24, 2019
4:15PM - 5:15PM
Cockins Hall 240

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Add to Calendar 2019-10-24 16:15:00 2019-10-24 17:15:00 Rado Lecture - Vaughan Jones Title: Lecture 2: Some unitary representations of R. Thompson's groups. Speaker: Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University) Abstract: Thompson’s groups $F$ and $T$ are certain groups of $PL$ homeomorphisms of the unit interval and the circle respectively. After describing them in some detail we will explain a very general way of constructing actions of these groups, a special case of which gives unitary representations on Hilbert space. The coefficients of these representations are interesting and give a way of constructing all knots and links from elements of $F$ (or $T$). Upcoming Lectures Lecture 3: On the continuum limit of a quantum spin chain (??) Previous Lectures Lecture 1: Some consequences of von Neumann dimension   Cockins Hall 240 Department of Mathematics math@osu.edu America/New_York public

Title: Lecture 2: Some unitary representations of R. Thompson's groups.

SpeakerVaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)

Abstract: Thompson’s groups $F$ and $T$ are certain groups of $PL$ homeomorphisms of the unit interval and the circle respectively. After describing them in some detail we will explain a very general way of constructing actions of these groups, a special case of which gives unitary representations on Hilbert space. The coefficients of these representations are interesting and give a way of constructing all knots and links from elements of $F$ (or $T$).

Upcoming Lectures

Lecture 3: On the continuum limit of a quantum spin chain (??)

Previous Lectures

Lecture 1: Some consequences of von Neumann dimension

 

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