Higher categories, strings, cubes and simplex equations

DOI10.1007/BF00872948zbMath0827.18002WikidataQ56687265 ScholiaQ56687265MaRDI QIDQ1346409

Ross H. Street

Publication date: 4 April 1995

Published in: Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

surveymonoidal categoriesbibliographyquantum groupsYang-Baxter equationsbraidingstatistical mechanicscocycleknot theorynon-abelian cohomologyZamolodchikov equationsstring notation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to category theory (18-02)

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