INVARIANTS of PIECEWISE-LINEAR 3-MANIFOLDS

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 348, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3997-4022

  Barrett, John W ^a   Westbury, Bruce W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 manifold invariants; Bistellar moves; Spherical category; Spherical Hopf algebra; State sum model

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444457888     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-96-01660-1     Document Type: Article

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