Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Invitation: gravity, point particles, and group-valued momenta.- Gravity in 2+1 dimensions as a Chern-Simons theory.- Gravity in 3+1 dimensions, particles and topological limit.- Deformed classical particles: phase space and kinematics.- Hopf algebra relativistic symmetries: the k-Poincar algebra.- Classical fields, symmetries and conserved charges.- Free quantum fields and discrete symmetries.