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Knots in Washington XXVIII; Follow up to Workshop on Knots and Quantum Computing (December, 2007 at UT Dallas)
February 27 - March 1, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UTD), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Vish Ramakrishna (UTD), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Kouki Taniyama (Waseda and GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Extended OC-TQFT
by
Simone Suarez
National University of Colombia campus Bogotá
Coauthors: Stella Huerfano

We will talk about Open Closed Topological Quantum Field Theories (OC-TQFT) that are a functors between the category of extended cobordisms and the ategory of knowledgeable Frobenius algebras. We will explain how the OC-TQFTs play a basic role in the extension of the Kovanov's Homology for links to a homology for tangles. We also want to compare the extension (of the Kovanov's homology or tangles) obtained by introducing a "extra" move to the ones used in Lauda's extension.

Date received: January 30, 2009

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