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From: David Leduc <david.leduc6@googlemail.com>
To: Toby Bartels <toby+categories@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc: categories <categories@mta.ca>, droberts@maths.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: Evil in bicategories
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:22:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OusT9-0001t5-V1@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100912073136.GA9115@ugcs.caltech.edu>

> You can see examples at http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/bicategory

Ah, it's only for bicategories. I was expecting a definition in
dependent type theory of omega-categories. That would have helped me
understanding it.

> The answer is the same: when stating the associativity law,
> you begin with objects W,X,Y,Z and go on from there.

Yes, it makes sense. Thank you.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-12 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-11  2:05 David Leduc
2010-09-11 23:23 ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-12  1:28 ` David Roberts
2010-09-12  6:03 ` Jocelyn Paine
     [not found] ` <20100911232358.GA32145@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-12  6:27   ` David Leduc
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTimbfG0tkjSNZgjL2yADBHnKAXQiHYsAkioEnxJY@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-12  7:31     ` Toby Bartels
     [not found] ` <20100912073136.GA9115@ugcs.caltech.edu>
2010-09-12 10:22   ` David Leduc [this message]
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTi=ZLdVcbvaHPaCfaZhzyDYCdwLNUQTj-5fNZ4p4@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-12 17:13     ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-12 12:38 ` JeanBenabou
2010-09-13  0:16   ` David Roberts
2010-09-13 22:28     ` Toby Bartels
2010-09-14 22:32     ` Richard Garner
2010-09-14 15:09   ` Miles Gould
2010-09-12 16:52 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2010-09-14  6:28 Michael Shulman
2010-09-15  1:12 Vaughan Pratt

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