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for homology theories. The Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms state that a homology theory is uniquely determined by its value for the point, so analogously what the cobordism hypothesis states is that a topological quantum field theory is uniquely determined by its value for the point. In other words, the
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outlined a proof of the cobordism hypothesis, though the details of his approach have yet to appear in the literature as of 2022. In 2021, Daniel Grady and Dmitri Pavlov claimed a complete proof of the cobordism hypothesis, as well as a generalization to
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Baez, John C.; Dolan, James (1995). "Higher‐dimensional algebra and topological quantum field theory".
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Grady, Daniel; Pavlov, Dmitri (2021-11-01). "The geometric cobordism hypothesis".
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Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative String Theory
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Ayala, David; Francis, John (2017-05-05). "The cobordism hypothesis".
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Symmetric monoidal functors from the cobordism category correspond to
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Seminar on the Cobordism Hypothesis and (Infinity,n)-Categories
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and James Dolan, concerns the classification of extended
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Classification of topological quantum field theories
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mathematics
John C. Baez
topological quantum field theories
Jacob Lurie
bordisms
symmetric monoidal
topological quantum field theories
Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms
Cobordism
arXiv
q-alg/9503002
Bibcode
1995JMP....36.6073B
doi
10.1063/1.531236
ISSN
0022-2488
S2CID
14908618
Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory and Perturbative String Theory
ISBN
978-0-8218-5195-1
arXiv
1705.02240


arXiv
2111.01095
Freed, Daniel S.
"The Cobordism hypothesis"

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