Towards an Algebraic Characterization of 3-dimensional Cobordisms
Towards an Algebraic Characterization of 3-dimensional Cobordisms
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DOI:
10.1090/conm/318/05549
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发表时间:
2001
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T. Kerler
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作者:
T. Kerler
The goal of this paper is to find a close to isomorphic presenta tion of 3-manifolds in terms of Hopf algebraic expressions. To this end we define and compare three different braided tensor categories that arise naturally in the study of Hopf algebras and 3-dimensional topology. The first is the category Cob of connected surfaces with one boundary component and 3-dimensional relative cobordisms, the second is a category Tgl of tangles with relations, and the third is a natural algebra ic category Alg freely generated by a Hopf algebra object. From previous work we know that Tgl and Cob are equivalent. We use this fact and the idea of Heegaard splittings to construct a surje ctive functor from Alg onto Cob . We also find a map that associates to the generators of the mapping class group in Cob preimages in Alg . The single block relations in the mapping class group are verified for th ese expressions. We propose to find a version of Alg with possibly additional relations to obatin isomorphic al gebraic presentations of the mapping class groups and eventually of Cob . 1