Center for Soft and Living Matter

at the University of Pennsylvania

Entanglements and Whitehead products: generalizing Kleman’s construction to higher-dimensional defects (Kamien Randall)

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Alexander Gareth P, Kamien Randall D.

 

We review the interpretation of Whitehead products in homotopy theory as an entanglement of topological defects in ordered media.

 

Liquid Crystals Reviews: 10.1080/21680396.2022.2067257