State-sum invariants of 3-manifolds associated to Artinian semisimple tortile categories

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(94)90073-6zbMath0832.57010OpenAlexW2072826854MaRDI QIDQ1330405

David N. Yetter

Publication date: 7 March 1996

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(94)90073-6

zbMATH Keywords

monoidal categorytopological quantum field theory\(6j\)-symbolsArtinian semisimple tortile categorystate-sum invariants of 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

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