Positivity of topological field theories in dimension at least 5

DOI10.1112/jtopol/jtn016zbMath1151.57035OpenAlexW2160953844MaRDI QIDQ3524108

Matthias Kreck, Peter Teichner

Publication date: 8 September 2008

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/jtopol/jtn016

zbMATH Keywords

Manifold pairing5-manifoldsPTFTTQFT.universal manifold pairingUTQFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

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