On the witten-reshetikhin-turaev representations of mapping class groups

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2483-2488

  Gilmer, Patrick M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mapping class group; TQFT

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644448587     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-99-04796-6     Document Type: Article

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