nLab A. P. Balachandran

Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran is an Indian-American theoretical physicist, retired from the Syracuse University.

Selected writings

Early discussion of abelian Chern-Simons theory as an effective field theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect:

On the spin-statistics theorem for non-relativistic particles via the topology of their configuration spaces of points:

On group theory, Lie theory, representation theory, and Hopf algebras for physics:

Discussion of density matrices, quantum entanglement and entropy in quantum probability/algebraic quantum theory, via the GNS construction:

On fiber bundles in physics:

and with emphasis on solitons and Skyrmions:

On superselection sectors and asymptotic symmetries of gauge theories:

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