Functorial knot theory: categories of tangles, coherence, categorical deformations and topological invariants
Auteur :
Yetter, David N
Éditeur :
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN :
9789810244439
Date de publication :
18 avr. 2001
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.