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We construct a new invariant of tangle cobordisms. The invariant of a tangle is a complex of bimodules over certain rings, well-defined up to chain homotopy equivalence. The invariant of a tangle cobordism is a homomorphism between complexes of bimodules assigned to boundaries of the cobordism.
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