# Contents

## Idea

A Yangian is a certain quantum group that arises naturally in integrable systems in quantum field theory.

## References

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is discussed that the holomorphically twisted N=1 D=4 super Yang-Mills theory is controled by the Yangian in analogy to how Chern-Simons theory is controled by a quantum group.

Revised on September 10, 2014 15:10:57 by Zoran Škoda (161.53.130.104)