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A Simple Model of 4d-TQFT

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2016 MATRIX Annals

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We show that, associated with any complex root of unity ω, there exists a particularly simple 4d-TQFT model defined on the cobordism category of ordered triangulations of oriented 4-manifolds.

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This work is supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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  1. Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 rue du Lièvre, 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Rinat Kashaev

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  1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  3. UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

    Terence Tao

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Kashaev, R. (2018). A Simple Model of 4d-TQFT. In: de Gier, J., Praeger, C., Tao, T. (eds) 2016 MATRIX Annals. MATRIX Book Series, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72299-3_14

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