The cobordism hypothesis

2017/05/05 by Ayala, David, Francis, John · 2 citations
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.02240

Abstract

Assuming a conjecture about factorization homology with adjoints, we prove the cobordism hypothesis, after Baez-Dolan, Costello, Hopkins-Lurie, and Lurie.

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