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Dewey Class	512.6
Title	Simplicial Methods for Higher Categories ([EBook]) : Segal-type Models of Weak n-Categories / by Simona Paoli.
Author	Paoli, Simona
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Cham : Springer International Publishing , 2019.
Physical Details	XXII, 343 pages : 262 illus., 12 illus. in color. : online resource.
Series	Algebra and Applications ; 26
ISBN	9783030056742
Summary Note	This monograph presents a new model of mathematical structures called weak $n$-categories. These structures find their motivation in a wide range of fields, from algebraic topology to mathematical physics, algebraic geometry and mathematical logic. While strict $n$-categories are easily defined in terms associative and unital composition operations they are of limited use in applications, which often call for weakened variants of these laws. The author proposes a new approach to this weakening, whose generality arises not from a weakening of such laws but from the very geometric structure of its cells; a geometry dubbed weak globularity. The new model, called weakly globular $n$-fold categories, is one of the simplest known algebraic structures yielding a model of weak $n$-categories. The central result is the equivalence of this model to one of the existing models, due to Tamsamani and further studied by Simpson. This theory has intended applications to homotopy theory, mathematical physics and to long-standing open questions in category theory. As the theory is described in elementary terms and the book is largely self-contained, it is accessible to beginning graduate students and to mathematicians from a wide range of disciplines well beyond higher category theory. The new model makes a transparent connection between higher category theory and homotopy theory, rendering it particularly suitable for category theorists and algebraic topologists. Although the results are complex, readers are guided with an intuitive explanation before each concept is introduced, and with diagrams showing the inter-connections between the main ideas and results.:
Contents note	Part I -- Higher Categories: Introduction and Background -- An Introduction to Higher Categories -- Multi-simplicial techniques -- An Introduction to the three Segal-type models -- Techniques from 2-category theory -- Part II -- The Three Segal-Type Models and Segalic Pseudo-Functors -- Homotopically discrete n-fold categories -- The Definition of the three Segal-type models -- Properties of the Segal-type models -- Pseudo-functors modelling higher structures -- Part III -- Rigidification of Weakly Globular Tamsamani n-Categories by Simpler Ones -- Rigidifying weakly globular Tamsamani n-categories -- Part IV. Weakly globular n-fold categories as a model of weak n-categories -- Functoriality of homotopically discrete objects -- Weakly Globular n-Fold Categories as a Model of Weak n-Categories -- Conclusions and further directions -- A Proof of Lemma 0.1.4 -- References -- Index.
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Internet Site	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05674-2
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Algebraic Geometry . Algebraic Topology . Category Theory, Homological Algebra . Category theory (Mathematics) . Homological algebra . Mathematical Physics . Authors: author . Paoli, Simona . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Algebra and Applications . Classification: 512.6 . 512.6 (DDC 23) .

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Simplicial Methods for Higher Categories: Segal-type Models of Weak n-Categories

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