# Circuit algebras are wheeled props

@article{Dancso2020CircuitAA,
title={Circuit algebras are wheeled props},
author={Zsuzsanna Dancso and I. Halacheva and M. Robertson},
journal={arXiv: Quantum Algebra},
year={2020}
}
• Published 2020
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Quantum Algebra
Circuit algebras, introduced by Bar-Natan and the first author, are a generalization of Jones's planar algebras, in which one drops the planarity condition on "connection diagrams". They provide a useful language for the study of virtual and welded tangles in low-dimensional topology. In this note, we present the circuit algebra analogue of the well-known classification of planar algebras as pivotal categories with a self-dual generator. Our main theorem is that there is an equivalence of… Expand

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