Reading Material

The following are some suggested reading materials to prepare participants for the minicourses:

• Compact quantum groups and their representation theory: Chapter 1, as well as the following sections of Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.7, in the book “Compact Quantum Groups and Their Representation Categories” by Sergey Neshveyev and Lars Tuset, which is available here for download: http://sergeyn.info/papers/CQGRC.pdf

• Tensor categories in quantum field theory: Chapters 1,2, and 8 of Halvorson–Mueger, Algebraic Quantum field Theory, arXiv:math-ph/0602036

• Quantization of complex Lie groups: Voigt–Yuncken, Complex semisimple quantum groups and representation theory, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 2264, Springer, Cham, 2020.

• Easy quantum groups: Moritz Weber, Introduction to compact (matrix) quantum groups and Banica-Speicher (easy) quantum groups, Notes of a lecture series at IMSc Chennai, India, 2015, Indian Academy of Sciences. Proceedings. Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 127, Issue 5, pp 881-933, Nov 2017.