| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 81 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 1947-6221 ; v. 558 |
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; no. 558. 0065-9266
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| Contents |
1. Introduction 2. The definition of tricategory 3. Trihomomorphisms, triequivalence, and $\mathbf {Tricat}(T, S)$ 4. Cubical functors and tricategories, and the monoidal category Gray 5. Gray-categories, and Bicat as a tricategory 6. The Gray-category $\mathbf {Prep}(T)$ of prerepresentations of $T$ 7. The "Yoneda embedding" 8. The main theorem |
| Summary |
Addresses the three-dimensional generalization of category, offering a full definition of tricategory; a proof of the coherence theorem for tricategories; and a modern source of material on Gray's tensor product of 2-categories. Of interest to research mathematicians; theoretical physicists, algebraic topologists; 3-D computer scientists; and theoretical computer scientists. Society members, $19.00. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or |
| Notes |
"September 1995, volume 117, number 558 (first of 5 numbers)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-81) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tricategories.
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Homotopy theory.
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MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
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MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
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MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
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Homotopy theory.
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Tricategories.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Power, A. J. (Anthony John), 1959-
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Street, Ross, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9781470401375 |
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1470401371 |
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