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Kerler, Thomas

Office:MW 448 (Columbus)
Phone:614-292-5252 (Columbus)
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Website:http://www.math.osu.edu/conferences/ymc
OSU ID:kerler.2
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Research Areas:3-dim Manifolds, Knots, Topological Quantum Field Theories, Representations of Mapping Class Groups
Algebra
Topology

Office Hours
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Selected Publications

  1. "Bridged Links and Tangle Presentations of Cobordism Categories". Adv. Math. 141 (1999), no. 2, 207-281
  2. "On the connectivity of cobordisms and half-projective TQFT's". Commun. Math. Phys. 198 (1998), no. 3, 535-590.
  3. "Quantumgroups, Quantumcategories and Quantumfieldtheory" Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1542, Springer Verlag, 1993 viii + 431 pp. (Second Edition, 1995) (with J.Fröhlich)
  4. " Non-semisimple Topological Quantm Field Theories for 3-Manifolds with Corners". Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1765, Springer Verlag, 2001. vi + 376 pp.(with V. Lyubashenko)
  5. "Homology TQFT's and the Alexander-Reidemeister Invariant of 3-Manifolds via Hopf Algebras and Skein Theory". Canad. J. Math. 55 (2003) 766-821.