Higher categories
Category Theory
2024-01-26 v1 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
Invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. We give an introduction to the homotopical theory of higher categories, focused on motivating the definitions of the basic objects, namely -categories and -categories.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.14311,
title = {Higher categories},
author = {Rune Haugseng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14311},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
33 pages; contribution to Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, 2nd ed