Essays about: "cobordism"

Found 2 essays containing the word cobordism.

  1. 1. The Schönflies conjecture

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Geometri och fysik

    Author : Jacob Skarby; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this degree project we define elementary notions of differential topology aswell as n-dimensional k-handles and relate these to Morse theory. Moreover, we define integral Morse homology and reference its equivalence to singularhomology. READ MORE

  3. 2. Construction of Two-Dimensional Topological Field Theories

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teoretisk fysik

    Author : Hans Nguyen; [2015]
    Keywords : topological field theories; TQFT; TFT; cobordism; Frobenius algebra;

    Abstract : In this thesis I thoroughly review the construction of topological quantum field theories (TQFT), with particular emphasis on the two dimensional examples. In the first part of the thesis, we consider the mathematical foundations of TQFT's by introducing notions such as categories, cobordisms and Frobenius algebras. READ MORE