2-tangles

DOI10.1023/A:1007449529401zbMath0905.57017arXivq-alg/9703033OpenAlexW4256504631MaRDI QIDQ1386540

Laurel Langford, John C. Baez

Publication date: 14 January 1999

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9703033

zbMATH Keywords

manifoldsurfacemovie moves\(2\)-tanglesemistrict braided monoidal \(2\)-categorysmooth embedding in Euclidean spaceunframed self-dual object

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40)

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