State-Sum Invariants of 4-Manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0218216597000145zbMath0883.57021arXivhep-th/9409167MaRDI QIDQ4351683

Louis H. Kauffman, Louis Crane, David N. Yetter

Publication date: 23 March 1998

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409167

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