Functorial knot theory: categories of tangles, coherence, categorical deformations, and topological invariants
Auteur :
Yetter, David N.
Éditeur :
Yetter, David N.
ISBN :
9789810244439
Date de publication :
18 avr. 2001
Dimensions :
21,8 x 15,5 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
458 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Singapour
A study of functorial knot theory. It discusses the key ideas in the discovery of monoidal categories of tangles as central objects in low-dimensional topology. The focus then turns to the deformation theory of monoidal categories and the related deformation theory of monoidal functors.