Cubical cospans and higher cobordisms (Cospans in algebraic topology, III)
Algebraic Topology
2008-06-17 v1 Category Theory
Abstract
After two papers on weak cubical categories and {\it collarable} cospans, respectively, we put things together and construct a {\it weak} cubical category of cubical {\it collared} cospans of topological spaces. We also build a second structure, called a {\it quasi} cubical category, formed of arbitrary cubical cospans concatenated by homotopy pushouts. This structure, simpler but weaker, has {\it lax} identities. It contains a similar framework for cobordisms of manifolds with corners and could therefore be the basis to extend the study of TQFT's of Part II to higher cubical degree.
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@article{arxiv.0806.2359,
title = {Cubical cospans and higher cobordisms (Cospans in algebraic topology, III)},
author = {Marco Grandis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2359},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
To be published in "Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures"