A diagrammatic presentation of the category 3Cob
Abstract
A category equivalent to the category of 3-dimensional cobordisms is defined in terms of planar diagrams. The operation of composition in this category is completely described via these diagrams.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2302.06428
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230206428N
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Category Theory;
- Mathematics - Algebraic Topology;
- 18B10;
- 57N70;
- 18M30;
- 18M05
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, some typos corrected