Coherence in three-dimensional category theory / Nick Gurski, University of Sheffield.

Dimension three is an important test-bed for hypotheses in higher category theory and occupies something of a unique position in the categorical landscape. At the heart of matters is the coherence theorem, of which this book provides a definitive treatment, as well as covering related results. Along...

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Uniform Title:Cambridge tracts in mathematics ; 201.
Main Author: Gurski, Nick, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge tracts in mathematics ; 201.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Background: Bicategorical background ; Coherence for bicategories ; Gray-categories -- Tricategories: The algebraic definition of tricategory ; Examples ; Free constructions ; Basic structure ; Gray-categories and tricategories ; Coherence via Yoneda ; Coherence via free constructions -- Gray-monads: Codescent in Gray-categories ; Codescent as a weighted colimit ; Gray-monads and their algebras ; The reflection of lax algebras into strict algebras ; A general coherence result. 
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