Higher-dimensional algebra. IV: 2-tangles.
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Publication:1421391
DOI10.1016/S0001-8708(03)00018-5zbMATH Open1039.57016arXivmath/9811139WikidataQ62443509 ScholiaQ62443509MaRDI QIDQ1421391FDOQ1421391
Authors: John Baez, Laurel Langford 
Publication date: 26 January 2004
Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Just as knots and links can be algebraically described as certain morphisms in the category of tangles in 3 dimensions, compact surfaces smoothly embedded in R^4 can be described as certain 2-morphisms in the 2-category of `2-tangles in 4 dimensions'. Using the work of Carter, Rieger and Saito, we prove that this 2-category is the `free semistrict braided monoidal 2-category with duals on one unframed self-dual object'. By this universal property, any unframed self-dual object in a braided monoidal 2-category with duals determines an invariant of 2-tangles in 4 dimensions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811139
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