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 | | Triangulations, categories and extended topological field theories, by R. Lawrence, to appear in Quantum Topology, eds L. Kauffman and R. Baadtrio, World Scientific, Singapore, 1993. |
 | | Since the 3-dimensional case required the development of new branches of algebra (namely, quantum groups and braided tensor categories), it seems that the higher-dimensional cases will require still further "higher-dimensional algebra." One approach, which is still being born, involves the use of "n-categories," which are generalizations of braided tensor categories suited for higher- dimensional physics. |
 | | Briefly speaking, Gordon-Power-Street use a category they call "Gray," the category of all 2-categories, made into a symmetric monoidal closed category using a modified version of Gray's tensor product. |
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