Entanglements and Whitehead Products: Generalizing Kleman's Construction to Higher-Dimensional Defects

Autor:	Alexander, Gareth P., Kamien, Randall D.
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Mathematics - General Topology
Zdroj:	Liquid Crystals Reviews 10 (2022) 91
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1080/21680396.2022.2067257
Popis:	We review the interpretation of Whitehead products in homotopy theory as an entanglement of topological defects in ordered media. Comment: 7 pages, figures, the whole megillah
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07311 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv