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Undirected Wiring Diagrams

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In this chapter we recall the definition of an undirected wiring diagram and give a proof that the collection of undirected wiring diagrams forms an operad.

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Yau, D. (2018). Undirected Wiring Diagrams. In: Operads of Wiring Diagrams. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95001-3_7

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