cobordism

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In the 1980s, it became clear that underlying these diagrams is a powerful analogy between quantum physics and topology: namely, a linear operator behaves very much like a "cobordism".

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  • Pontryagin classes (related to Chern classes), Pontryagin spaces, Pontryagin duality, and study cobordism theory? —  The Reference Frame
  • In cobordism theory, he gave his name to the Pontryagin-Thom construction. —  The Reference Frame
  • This morning Jacob Lurie posted a draft of an expository paper on his work (with Mike Hopkins) classifying extended (infinity, n) - categorical topological field theories and their relation to the Baez-Dolan cobordism hypothesis. —  Secret Blogging Seminar
  • On the relation of Voevodsky's algebraic cobordism to Quillen's K - theory —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • That theorem reconstructs complex K-theory via complex cobordism [1]. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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