A Prehistory of n-Categorical Physics

zbMath1236.81006arXiv0908.2469MaRDI QIDQ3100017

Aaron D. Lauda, John C. Baez

Publication date: 22 November 2011

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2469

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryquantum theoryquantum groupYang-Mills theorystring theoryspin networkcategory theorymonoidal categoryJones polynomialsemisimple algebraelectromagnetismFeynman diagrambicategoryDonaldson theoryloop quantum gravityFrobenius algebralow-dimensional topologytopological quantum field theorycanonical basis\(n\)-categorybraided monoidal bicategoryfunctorial semanticsEckman-Hilton argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Physics (00A79)

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