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- From: Leif Johansson <leifj@matematik.su.se>
- Subject: A question about inf-categories
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- Sender: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 08:33:50 GMT
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- I would very much appreciate any info on inifinity-categories that
- are also "triangulated" - what is the correct notion anyway? Any
- standard references are wellcomed. Reply through email to
- leifj@matematik.su.se
-
- For those not familiar with \inf-categories, here's the definition:
- A \inf-category is a class A of morphisms such that there for all integers n
- is a subclass of A denoted A_n with Ob A_n \subset Ob A_{n+1} and the structure
- of a category on A_n with compatibility conditions on these category structures
- making A into a Kan-komplex with the added condition that the completion of
- n+1 compatible n-faces to an n+1 face is unique (which is not always the case
- with Kan-komplexes). Compatible in the above is like in the picture below:
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- to be completed to
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- (sorry for the angle mismatch..) A good ref. for the definition is: "The
- equivalence of \inf-groupoids and crossed complexes." by Brown and Higgins in
- Cah. de Top. et Geom. Diff. Vol 22 1981.
-
- Thanx in advance.
-
- MVH leifj
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