From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8450 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jamie Vicary Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Semistrict n-categories Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:10:08 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Jamie Vicary NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420549530 26331 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2015 13:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:05:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Jan 06 14:05:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.1.127]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Tmj-0002vo-Ss for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:02:58 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:38223) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Tlx-0008A8-SE; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Tlx-00010w-4z for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:02:09 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8450 Archived-At: Hi, Sjoerd Crans did some nice work on semistrict n-categories, which he called "teisi", summarized here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.51.3774&rep=rep1&type=pdf This work is now almost 20 years old, and there has been an enormous amount of activity on higher category theory since then. But I can't find much recent development of this idea, or anything like it. What's the latest thinking on semistrict n-categories? (By this I mean "Gray-like", with all the weakness in the interchangers.) Cheers Jamie [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]