Open-closed strings: Two-dimensional extended TQFTs and Frobenius algebras

Topology and its Applications

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 623-666

  Lauda, Aaron D ^a   Pfeiffer, Hendryk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cobordism; Frobenius algebra; Manifold with corners; Open closed string; Topological Quantum Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549109499     PISSN: 01668641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.topol.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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