Structures and diagrammatics of four dimensional topological lattice field theories

DOI10.1006/aima.1998.1822zbMath0938.57014arXivmath/9806023OpenAlexW2060821838MaRDI QIDQ1306826

Masahico Saito, J. Scott Carter, Louis H. Kauffman

Publication date: 5 December 1999

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806023

zbMATH Keywords

triangulation4-manifolddiagrammatic methodHopf categoryCrane-Yetter cocycletopological lattice field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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