Geometry & Topology Volume 9, issue 4 (2005)

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Universal manifold pairings and positivity

Michael H Freedman, Alexei Kitaev, Chetan Nayak, Johannes K Slingerland, Kevin Walker and Zhenghan Wang

Geometry & Topology 9 (2005) 2303–2317

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