## Proceedings of the Freedman Fest. Based on the conference on low-dimensional manifolds and high-dimensional categories, Berkeley, CA, USA, June 6–10, 2011 and the Freedman symposium, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, April 15–17, 2011 dedicated to Mike Freedman on the occasion of his 60th birthday.(English)Zbl 1253.00022

Geometry and Topology Monographs 18. Coventry: Geometry & Topology Publications. 308 p. (2012).
The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually.
Indexed articles:
Arkhipov, Alex; Kuperberg, Greg, The bosonic birthday paradox, 1-7 [Zbl 1259.60009]
Baykur, Refik Ịnanç, Broken Lefschetz fibrations and smooth structures on 4-manifolds, 9-34 [Zbl 1264.57006]
Conant, James; Schneiderman, Rob; Teichner, Peter, Universal quadratic forms and Whitney tower intersection invariants, 35-60 [Zbl 1264.57007]
Fintushel, Ronald; Stern, Ronald, Surgery on nullhomologous tori, 61-81 [Zbl 1276.57034]
Freed, Daniel S., On Wigner’s theorem, 83-89 [Zbl 1259.81033]
Freedman, Michael, Kernel $$(J)$$ warns of false vacua, 91-101 [Zbl 1287.81117]
Gay, David; Kirby, Robion, Reconstructing 4-manifolds from Morse 2-functions, 103-114 [Zbl 1267.57020]
Hastings, Matthew B., Matrix product operators and central elements: classical description of a quantum state, 115-160 [Zbl 1273.81029]
Kirby, Robion; Melvin, Paul; Teichner, Peter, Cohomotopy sets of 4-manifolds, 161-190 [Zbl 1273.57012]
Kitaev, Alexei; Wang, Zhenghan, Solutions to generalized Yang-Baxter equations via ribbon fusion categories., 191-197 [Zbl 1254.81026]
Krushkal, Vyacheslav, Link groups of 4-manifolds, 199-234 [Zbl 1266.57016]
Taylor, Laurence, The principal fibration sequence and the second cohomotopy set, 235-251 [Zbl 1270.55012]
Webster, Ben, An introduction to categorifying quantum knot invariants, 253-289 [Zbl 1258.57008]
Witten, Edward, Khovanov homology and gauge theory, 291-308 [Zbl 1276.57013]
Gukov, Sergei; Stošić, Marko, Homological algebra of knots and BPS states, 309-367 [Zbl 1296.57014]
Wehrheim, Katrin, Smooth structures on Morse trajectory spaces, featuring finite ends and associative gluing, 369-450 [Zbl 1279.37028]

### MSC:

 00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest 00B30 Festschriften 81-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to quantum theory 81Txx Quantum field theory; related classical field theories 53C80 Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences 55Nxx Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology 18Dxx Categorical structures

### Biographic References:

Freedman, Michael Hartley