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            | Răzvan Gelca and Alastair Hamilton Classical theta functions from a quantum group perspective view    print |  | 
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                | Published: | February 19, 2015 |  
                | Keywords: | Abelian Chern-Simons theory, theta functions, quantum groups |  
                | Subject: | 81R50, 57M27, 14K25 |  |  | 
 |  | Abstract 
			      
In this paper we show how to model classical theta functions using the quantum group of abelian Chern-Simons theory. We describe the representation of the Heisenberg and mapping class groups in this setting.
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			  | Acknowledgements Research of the first author partially supported by the NSF, award No. DMS 0604694Research of the second author partially supported by the Simons Foundation, award No. 279462
 
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			  | Author information Răzvan Gelca:Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042. USA.
 rgelca@gmail.com
 
 Alastair Hamilton:Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042. USA.
 alastair.hamilton@ttu.edu
 
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