The Third Road to Quantum Gravity

[setAI]

thanks Marcus- nice to see Max T pushing his IMNSHO very important Multiverse ideas further-

 

[Kea]

Just a reminder that the neutrino mass predictions are available on Carl's website at

http://carlbrannen.blogspot.com/

 

[marcus]

Kea, is this of interest to "Third-roadies"?
Scott Morrison is an Australian who just did his PhD in Berkeley under Vaughn Jones.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1503
It is about describing all representations of the Quantum Group SL_n
and in particular he confirms a conjecture of Kim about the quantum
LieAlgebra sl₄
He handles the problem catty-functishly.
He also cites Wikipedia articles in his PhD thesis bibliography which seems to me like an Australian thing to do. It struck me as good and cheerful work.
Greg Kuperberg supplied the problem (UC Davis is only 50 miles northwards up the pike). I would be pleased if you told me that Scott's thesis might be of some worldly (physical) good.

 

[Kea]

I would be pleased if you told me that Scott's thesis might be of some worldly (physical) good.

Why, thanks, Marcus. Yes, I highly recommend Scott's work. Actually, I met Scott in Taipa in the north island last year. He came with Vaughn Jones and Mike Freedman and gang for a kiwi maths conference with a lot of quantum computation lectures. I learned a lot.