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Knots in Washington XLI
December 4-6, 2015
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Formal Contact Categories
by
Ben Cooper
University of Iowa

To each oriented surface S we associate a differential graded category. The homotopy category is a triangulated category which satisfies properties akin to those of the contact categories studied by K. Honda. These categories are related to the algebraic contact categories of Y. Tian and the bordered sutured categories of R. Zarev.

Date received: November 18, 2015

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