Introduction to Braided Geometry and q-Minkowski Space
by Shahn Majid
Publisher: arXiv 1994
Number of pages: 60
Description:
We present a systematic introduction to the geometry of linear braided spaces. These are versions of Rn in which the coordinates xi have braid-statistics described by an R-matrix. From this starting point we survey the author's braided-approach to q-deformation.
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