Introduction (Mike Hopkins) Today I want to talk about how the theory of (∞, 1)-categories came to our attention. ("Wait a minute. I have to pull up my lecture preparation simulator.") It starts with a question of Quillen, in Quillen's theory of homotopical algebra. Quillen noticed...
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra Mar 199477被引用 0笔记PDF 引用 收藏 共1个版本 摘要原文 We study a certain coherence problem for braided monoidal 2-categories. For ordinary braided monoidal categories such a problem is well known to lead to braid groups: If we denote by T(n) the pure...
John Baez, Urs Schreiber,Higher Gauge Theory,inCategories in Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics, A. Davydov et al. (ds.), Contemp. Math. 431, AMS, Providence, Rhode Island, 2007, pp. 7-30 (arXiv:math/0511710) but for some reason, the publication of the fully rigorous discussion...