nLab John Francis

John Nathan Kirkpatrick Francis

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Selected writings

On integral transforms, derived loop spaces and Drinfeld centers in derived algebraic geometry:

• David Ben-Zvi, John Francis, David Nadler: Integral transforms and Drinfeld centers in derived algebraic geometry, Jour. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (2010) 909-966 [arXiv:0805.0157, doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-10-00669-7]

On tmf:

• Christopher Douglas, John Francis, André Henriques, Michael Hill, Topological Modular Forms, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 201, AMS (2014) [ISBN:978-1-4704-1884-7]

On factorization homology and nonabelian Poincaré duality on topological manifolds:

• David Ayala, John Francis: Factorization homology of topological manifolds, Journal of Topology 8 4 (2015) 1045-1084 [arXiv:1206.5522, doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtv028]

On the Jones polynomial from quantization of Chern-Simons theory via factorization homology:

• Kevin Costello, John Francis, Owen Gwilliam: Chern-Simons factorization algebras and knot polynomials [arXiv:2602.12412]

Related entries

• geometric ∞-function theory

• little cubes operad

• E-k operad

• Ek-Algebras

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