Spherical 2-categories and 4-manifold invariants

DOI10.1006/AIMA.1998.1798zbMath0946.57021arXivmath/9805030OpenAlexW2000731066MaRDI QIDQ1290945

Marco Mackaay

Publication date: 19 October 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9805030

zbMATH Keywords

quantum invariantsstate sumDijkgraaf-Witten theorybraided monoidal tensor category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37)

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