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Categories enriched over symmetric closed multicategories

Category Theory 2024-10-29 v6

Abstract

We construct a machine which takes as input a locally small symmetric closed complete multicategory V\mathsf V. And its output is again a locally small symmetric closed complete multicategory V-Cat\mathsf V\text-\mathcal{C}at, the multicategory of small V\mathsf V-categories and multi-entry V\mathsf V-functors. An example of such V\mathsf V is provided by short spaces (vector spaces with a system of seminorms) and short maps. When the ground multicategory V\mathsf V is Set\mathsf{Set} we obtain strict 2-categories and their surroundings by iterating twice the construction of categories.

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@article{arxiv.2304.11227,
  title  = {Categories enriched over symmetric closed multicategories},
  author = {Volodymyr Lyubashenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11227},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

76 pp, diagrams.sty (version 3.96). Missing information for proofs can be recovered with some work or with the help of version 4. Corrected typos and typographically corrected

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