From: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: String diagrams, adjunction and autonomous categories.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:06:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinyeJpjqUZHeNzdCg2zMPZ+jvFwxk93SoniYaRr@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Micah wrote:
Incidentally, although I'm not sure that I'm familiar with the work of Baez
> to which you refer, I would imagine that the use of string diagrams to
> describe units and counits in an autonomous category is considerably older,
> at least as far back as "Planar Diagrams and Tensor Algebra" by Joyal and
> Street (available on the website of the latter) from 1988.
>
He was probably talking about these popularizations:
A prehistory of n-categorical physics, with Aaron Lauda
http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2469
Physics, logic, computation and topology: a Rosetta stone, with Mike Stay
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0340
which cite the work of Joyal and Street, though sadly not the paper you
mention.
Best,
jb
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next reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 5:06 John Baez [this message]
2010-09-02 18:23 ` Michael Shulman
2010-09-04 1:38 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2010-09-04 16:44 ` jim stasheff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-06 16:20 André Joyal
2010-09-03 7:07 John Baez
2010-09-06 2:05 ` Peter Selinger
2010-08-29 5:48 David Leduc
2010-08-30 2:31 ` Micah Blake McCurdy
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