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Cubical n-Categories and Finite Limits Theories

Category Theory 2010-01-18 v1

Abstract

This note informally describes a way to build certain cubical n-categories by iterating a process of taking models of certain finite limits theories. We base this discussion on a construction of "double bicategories" as bicategories internal to Bicat, and see how to extend this to n-tuple bicategories (and similarly for tricategories etc.) We briefly consider how to reproduce "simpler" definitions of weak cubical n-category from these.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2628,
  title  = {Cubical n-Categories and Finite Limits Theories},
  author = {Jeffrey C. Morton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2628},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

14 pages; submitted to proceedings of MakkaiFest 2009; expository