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Wilson surfaces and higher dimensional knot invariants
2005
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An observable for nonabelian, higher-dimensional forms is introduced, its properties are discussed and its expectation value in BF theory is described. This is shown to produce potential and genuine invariants of higher-dimensional knots.
doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000032991
fatcat:zkbibvonbjaabhm3chkovb4kle