TQFT’S FROM HOMOTOPY 2-TYPES

DOI10.1142/S0218216593000076zbMath0787.57002OpenAlexW2076309154MaRDI QIDQ5286043

David N. Yetter

Publication date: 29 June 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218216593000076

zbMATH Keywords

triangulationgroupoidcrossed moduletopological quantum field theoryhomotopy 2-typegroup object in the category of groups

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