On weak higher dimensional categories. I: Part 1

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(99)00179-6zbMATH Open0971.18005OpenAlexW2007590911MaRDI QIDQ1588075FDOQ1588075

Authors: Claudio Hermida, Michael Makkai, John Power 

Publication date: 28 October 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-4049(99)00179-6

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zbMATH Keywords

multicategorymultitopic setopetopic setspasting diagramweak higher-dimensional category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Categorical logic, topoi (03G30) Quantum groups (quantized function algebras) and their representations (20G42) General theory of categories and functors (18A99)

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• Non-unital polygraphs form a presheaf category
• The shuffle pasting
• The formal theory of monoidal monads
• Polynomial functors and opetopes
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• A combinatorial-topological shape category for polygraphs
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• The category of 3-computads is not cartesian closed
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