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Diagrammatic notation has become a ubiquitous computational tool; early examples include Penrose's graphical notation for tensor calculus, Feynman's diagrams for perturbative quantum field theory, and Cvitanovic's birdtracks for Lie algebras. Category theory provides a robust framework in which to understand the nature of such diagrams, and Joyal and Street formalized this framework by introducing string diagrams, governed by the syntax of monoidal 1-categories. The notion of "manifold diagrams" generalizes string diagrams to higher dimensions, and can be interpreted in higher-categorical terms by a process of geometric dualization. The closely related notion of "tame tangles" describes a well-behaved class of embedded manifolds that can likewise be interpreted categorically. In this paper we formally introduce the notions of manifold diagrams and of tame tangles, and show that they admit a combinatorial classification, by using results from the toolbox of framed combinatorial topology. We then study the stability of tame tangles under perturbation; the local forms of perturbation stable tame tangles provide combinatorial models of differential singularities. As an illustration we

Author

Dorn, Christoph; Douglas, Christopher L.

Published

2022

Language

EN