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 /

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Meeting name:AMS Special Session on Diagrammatic Morphisms in Algebra, Category Theory, and Topology (2000 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Imprint:Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2003.
Description:xii, 213 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 318
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 318.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4895293
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Other authors / contributors:Radford, David E.
Souza, Fernando J. O. (Fernando JoseĢ Oliveira), 1971-
Yetter, David N.
ISBN:0821827944 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of 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 $SL_2$
  • Bi-oriented quantum algebras, and a generalized Alexander polynomial for virtual links
  • Towards an algebraic characterization of 3-dimensional cobordisms
  • Operad of graphs, convolution and quasi Hopf algebra
  • $SU_n$-quantum invariants for periodic links
  • Weak omega-categories