Download or read book Factorizable Sheaves and Quantum Groups written by Roman Bezrukavnikov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is devoted to the geometrical construction of the representations of Lusztig's small quantum groups at roots of unity. These representations are realized as some spaces of vanishing cycles of perverse sheaves over configuration spaces. As an application, the bundles of conformal blocks over the moduli spaces of curves are studied. The book is intended for specialists in group representations and algebraic geometry.