Bridged links and tangle presentations of cobordism categories

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 207-281

  Kerler, Thomas ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033540518     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/aima.1998.1772     Document Type: Article

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