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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817175103321

Titolo

Diagrammatic morphisms and applications : AMS Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology, October 21-22, 2000, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California / / David E. Radford, Fernando J.O. Souza, David N. Yetter, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-8218-7908-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 318

Disciplina

512/.55

Soggetti

Morphisms (Mathematics)

Topology

Categories (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Diagrammatic morphisms""; ""Spin foam perturbation theory""; ""Unlinked embedded graphs""; ""Report on cross product bialgebras in braided categories""; ""Diagrammatic computations for quandles and cocycle knot invariants""; ""Lax monoids, pseudo-operads, and convolution""; ""Diagrammatic formulation of multi-braided quantum groups""; ""A matrix model for quantum SL2""; ""Bi-oriented quantum algebras, and a generalized Alexander polynomial for virtual links""; ""Towards an algebraic characterization of 3-dimensional cobordisms""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The category Cob""

""SUn�quantum invariants for periodic links""""Weak omega-categories""