Braided monoidal 2-categories and Manin-Schechtman higher braid groups

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(94)90097-3zbMath0791.18010OpenAlexW2048892422WikidataQ101093653 ScholiaQ101093653MaRDI QIDQ1318781

Vladimir Voevodsky, Mikhail Kapranov

Publication date: 4 April 1994

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(94)90097-3

zbMATH Keywords

monoidal categoriescoherencebraid groups2-categoriestensor producttensor categoriespermutohedroncubical polytopeshigher pure braid groupsYang-Baxter hexagonZamolodchikov equationsZamolodchikov tetrahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Symmetric monoidal categories (19D23)

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