Diagrammatic Algebra

Diagrammatic Algebra
ISBN-10
1470466716
ISBN-13
9781470466718
Category
Mathematics
Pages
365
Language
English
Published
2021-12-15
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Authors
J. Scott Carter, Seiichi Kamada

Description

This book is an introduction to techniques and results in diagrammatic algebra. It starts with abstract tensors and their categorifications, presents diagrammatic methods for studying Frobenius and Hopf algebras, and discusses their relations with topological quantum field theory and knot theory. The text is replete with figures, diagrams, and suggestive typography that allows the reader a glimpse into many higher dimensional processes. The penultimate chapter summarizes the previous material by demonstrating how to braid 3- and 4- dimensional manifolds into 5- and 6-dimensional spaces. The book is accessible to post-qualifier graduate students, and will also be of interest to algebraists, topologists and algebraic topologists who would like to incorporate diagrammatic techniques into their research.

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