Wilson surfaces and higher dimensional knot invariants

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 513-537

  Cattaneo, Alberto S ^a   Rossi, Carlo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 18244403134     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-005-1339-0     Document Type: Article

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