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Defining extended TQFTs *with point, line, surface, … operators*
Yes there's a very natural way to incorporate defects of arbitrary dimension into the formalism of extended topological field theory, and this is a vital part of the structure of TQFT. For example in ...
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Is there a general dilogarithm formula for the Cheeger–Chern–Simons class?
As noted in the comments, a paper [1] of Garoufalidis, D. Thurston, and Zickert answers this question for $\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{C})$.
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Garoufalidis, Stavros; Thurston, Dylan P.; Zickert, ...
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