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Towards Higher Categories
Author | : John C. Baez,J. Peter May |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Algebra |
ISBN | : 9781441915368 |
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The purpose of this book is to give background for those who would like to delve into some higher category theory. It is not a primer on higher category theory itself. It begins with a paper by John Baez and Michael Shulman which explores informally, by analogy and direct connection, how cohomology and other tools of algebraic topology are seen through the eyes of n-category theory. The idea is to give some of the motivations behind this subject. There are then two survey articles, by Julie Bergner and Simona Paoli, about (infinity,1) categories and about the algebraic modelling of homotopy n-types. These are areas that are particularly well understood, and where a fully integrated theory exists. The main focus of the book is on the richness to be found in the theory of bicategories, which gives the essential starting point towards the understanding of higher categorical structures. An article by Stephen Lack gives a thorough, but informal, guide to this theory. A paper by Larry Breen on the theory of gerbes shows how such categorical structures appear in differential geometry. This book is dedicated to Max Kelly, the founder of the Australian school of category theory, and an historical paper by Ross Street describes its development.
Goodwillie Approximations to Higher Categories
Author | : Gijs Heuts |
Publsiher | : American Mathematical Society |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781470448936 |
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Higher Categories and Homotopical Algebra
Author | : Denis-Charles Cisinski |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781108473200 |
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At last, a friendly introduction to modern homotopy theory after Joyal and Lurie, reaching advanced tools and starting from scratch.
Homotopy Theory of Higher Categories
Author | : Carlos Simpson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781139502191 |
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The study of higher categories is attracting growing interest for its many applications in topology, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics and category theory. In this highly readable book, Carlos Simpson develops a full set of homotopical algebra techniques and proposes a working theory of higher categories. Starting with a cohesive overview of the many different approaches currently used by researchers, the author proceeds with a detailed exposition of one of the most widely used techniques: the construction of a Cartesian Quillen model structure for higher categories. The fully iterative construction applies to enrichment over any Cartesian model category, and yields model categories for weakly associative n-categories and Segal n-categories. A corollary is the construction of higher functor categories which fit together to form the (n+1)-category of n-categories. The approach uses Tamsamani's definition based on Segal's ideas, iterated as in Pelissier's thesis using modern techniques due to Barwick, Bergner, Lurie and others.
Simplicial Methods for Higher Categories
Author | : Simona Paoli |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2019-06-03 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9783030056742 |
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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 interconnections between the main ideas and results.
Higher Operads Higher Categories
Author | : Tom Leinster |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2004-07-22 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521532150 |
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Foundations of higher dimensional category theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics.
Higher Dimensional Categories From Double To Multiple Categories
Author | : Grandis Marco |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2019-09-09 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9789811205125 |
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The study of higher dimensional categories has mostly been developed in the globular form of 2-categories, n-categories, omega-categories and their weak versions. Here we study a different form: double categories, n-tuple categories and multiple categories, with their weak and lax versions.We want to show the advantages of this form for the theory of adjunctions and limits. Furthermore, this form is much simpler in higher dimension, starting with dimension three where weak 3-categories (also called tricategories) are already quite complicated, much more than weak or lax triple categories.This book can be used as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate studies, and as a basis for research. Notions are presented in a 'concrete' way, with examples and exercises; the latter are endowed with a solution or hints. Part I, devoted to double categories, starts at basic category theory and is kept at a relatively simple level. Part II, on multiple categories, can be used independently by a reader acquainted with 2-dimensional categories.
Category Theory in Context
Author | : Emily Riehl |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780486820804 |
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Introduction to concepts of category theory — categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctions, monads — revisits a broad range of mathematical examples from the categorical perspective. 2016 edition.