Cubical categories, TQFTs and possible new representations for the Poincare group

Doctor of Philosophy === Department of Mathematics === Louis Crane === In this thesis we explore the possibilities of obtaining Topological Quantum Field Theories using cobordisms with corners to break further down in the structure of manifolds of a given dimension. The algebraic data obtained is...

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Main Author: Majard, Dany
Language:en_US
Published: Kansas State University 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14139