Ribbon Abelian Categories as Modular Categories

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-403

  Lyubashenko, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Braiding; Mapping class group; Modular functor; Ribbon abelian category

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030519601     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216596000229     Document Type: Article

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