2-Tangles

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-197

  Baez, John C ^a   Langford, Laurel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 tangle; Braided monoidal 2 category

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001310409     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007449529401     Document Type: Article

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