Braided compact closed categories with applications to low dimensional topology

1989/10/01 by Peter Freyd, Peter J Freyd, David N. Yetter +1 · 152 citations
Mathematics · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Algebra over a field #Combinatorics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Mathematics #Pure mathematics #Topology (electrical circuits)

paper · doi:10.1016/0001-8708(89)90018-2

published in Advances in Mathematics 77(2), 156-182 (Elsevier BV)

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