Higher dimensional algebras via colored PROPs
Category Theory
2013-02-16 v1 Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Topology
math.MP
Abstract
Starting from any unital colored PROP , we define a category of shapes called -propertopes. Presheaves on are called -propertopic sets. For we define and study -time categorified -algebras as -propertopic sets with some lifting properties. Taking appropriate PROPs , we obtain higher categorical versions of polycategories, 2-fold monoidal categories, topological quantum field theories, and so on.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.2161,
title = {Higher dimensional algebras via colored PROPs},
author = {Donald Yau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2161},
year = {2013}
}