Towards an n-category of cobordisms

Theory and Applications of Categories

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 274-302

  Cheng, Eugenia ^a   Gurski, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobordism; n category; Operad; Topological quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649811596     PISSN: 1201561X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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