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Operations in Leinster's Weak $\omega$-Category Operad

Category Theory 2017-11-22 v1

Abstract

Batanin defines a weak ω\omega-category as an algebra for a certain operad. Leinster refines this idea and defines the weak ω\omega-category operad as the initial object of a category of "operads with contraction". We demonstrate how a higher category structure arises from this definition by explicitly constructing various composites, associativity and coherence laws, and an Eckmann-Hilton braiding.

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@article{arxiv.1711.07958,
  title  = {Operations in Leinster's Weak $\omega$-Category Operad},
  author = {Kyle Raftogianis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07958},
  year   = {2017}
}
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