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April 2005 Abelian homotopy Dijkgraaf-Witten theory
Søren K. Hansen, Johannes K. Slingerland, Paul R. Turner
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 9(2): 321-353 (April 2005).

Abstract

We construct a version of Dijkgraaf–Witten theory based on a compact abelian Lie group within the formalism of Turaev’s homotopy quantum field theory. As an application we show that the $2+1$-dimensional theory based on $\rm U(1)$ classifies lens spaces up to homotopy type.

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Søren K. Hansen. Johannes K. Slingerland. Paul R. Turner. "Abelian homotopy Dijkgraaf-Witten theory." Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 9 (2) 321 - 353, April 2005.

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Published: April 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 29 March 2006

zbMATH: 1169.57307
MathSciNet: MR2192315

Subjects:
Primary: 53Cxx
Secondary: 55Pxx , 57Rxx , 58Jxx , 81T45

Rights: Copyright © 2005 International Press of Boston

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