Higher Dimensional Categories: From Double to Multiple Categories

by Marco Grandis

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811205108
• ISBN13: 9789811205101
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"