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Higher operads, higher categories /

Foundations of higher dimensional category theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leinster, Tom, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 298.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background: Classical categorical structures
  • Classical operads and multicategories
  • Notions of monoidal category
  • Operads. Generalized operads and multicategories: basics
  • Example: fc-multicategories
  • Generalized operads and multicategories: further theory
  • Opetopes
  • n-categories: Globular operads
  • A definition of weak n-category
  • Other definitions of weak n-category
  • Appendices: A. Symmetric structures
  • B. Coherence for monoidal categories
  • C. Special Cartesian monads
  • D. Free multicategories
  • E. Definitions of trees
  • F. Free strict n-categories
  • G. Initial operad-with-contraction.