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A Polarized View of String Topology

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• Ralph Cohen, Veronique Godin,

  A polarized view of string topology,

  In:

  Graeme Segal, Ulrike Tillmann (eds.)

  Topology, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory,

  LMS, Lecture Notes Series 308, 2004

  arXiv:math/0303003

  doi:10.1017/CBO9780511526398.008

on realization of closed-string topology operations as an HQFT.

See also the followup

• Veronique Godin, Higher string topology operations (arXiv:0711.4859)

for more details and the extension of open-closed HQFT.

And see example 4.2.16 and remark 4.2.17, in

• Jacob Lurie, On the Classification of Topological Field Theories

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