Duality, crossing and MacLane's coherence

Ram Brustein; Yuval Ne'eman; Shlomo Sternberg

doi:10.1007/BF02764610

Duality, crossing and MacLane's coherence

Ram Brustein, Yuval Ne'eman, Shlomo Sternberg

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It is shown that MacLane' rectangle, pentagon and hexagon identities in category theory, when applied in particle physics to duality diagrams or to rational conformal field theories in two dimensions, yield the necessary physical algebraic constraints.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-37
Number of pages	19
Journal	Israel Journal of Mathematics
Volume	72
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764610
State	Published - 1 Feb 1990
Externally published	Yes

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