2002/12/31 by Paul Turner · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Algebra over a field #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Differential (mechanical device) #Field (mathematics) #Homotopy #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Manifold (fluid mechanics) #Quantum #Quantum field theory #Topological quantum field theory #Vector field #math.AT #math.QA #msc:53C05 #msc:57R56 #msc:58A10 #msc:81T15
paper · pdf · doi:10.2140/agt.2004.4.81
published as Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4 (2004) 81-93 · Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-6.abs.html
openalex publication_date 2004/02/18 · arxiv created 2004/03/08 · arxiv updated 2014/09/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We describe Cheeger-Simons differential characters in terms of a variant of Turaev's homotopy quantum field theories based on chains in a smooth manifold X .