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* Reference for monoidal bicategory of spans?
@ 2011-01-10 23:18 Mike Stay
  2011-01-11 21:02 ` David Roberts
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From: Mike Stay @ 2011-01-10 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: categories

Can anyone provide a reference for the fact that given a category C
with pullbacks and finite products, you get a monoidal bicategory
Span(C)?
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* Re: Reference for monoidal bicategory of spans?
  2011-01-10 23:18 Reference for monoidal bicategory of spans? Mike Stay
@ 2011-01-11 21:02 ` David Roberts
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From: David Roberts @ 2011-01-11 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Stay; +Cc: categories

Hi Mike,

how about

Stephen Lack, R.F.C Walters, R.J. Wood, Bicategories of Spans as
cartesian bicategories, submitted to Theory and Applications of
Categories. (available from http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2996)

David


[Note from moderator: The article cited has appeared as Vol 24 #1 of TAC.]

On 11 January 2011 09:48, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone provide a reference for the fact that given a category C
> with pullbacks and finite products, you get a monoidal bicategory
> Span(C)?
> --
> Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike
> http://reperiendi.wordpress.com


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