Structures and diagrammatics of four dimensional topological lattice field theories

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-100

  Scott Carter, J ^a   Kauffman, Louis H ^b   Saito, Masahico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0002089763     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/aima.1998.1822     Document Type: Article

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