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Abelian homotopy Dijkgraaf-Witten theory

S. K. Hansen, J. K. Slingerland, P. R. Turner

math.QAarXiv:math/0410179

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 U(1) classifies lens spaces up to homotopy type.

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