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Main Authors: Auinger, Karl, Volkov, Mikhail
Format: Preprint
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01016
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  • We introduce a complete set of combinatorial data that encode the category $2\mathfrak{Cob}$ of all $2$-cobordisms. As an application, we show that the local monoids of $2\mathfrak{Cob}$ do not have finitely axiomatizable equational theories. As yet another application, we construct a von-Neumann-regular extension of this category. Similar results are provided for the topological annular category and various quotients of the latter, like the affine Temperley--Lieb category.