Bicategories and 2-Categories
Bicategories and 2-Categories
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双类别和 2 类别
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198871378.003.0002
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发表时间:
2021
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通讯作者:
Donald Yau
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作者:
Niles Johnson;Donald Yau
⇓ θ a b f g , together with vertical and horizontal composition operations a b f g h ⇓ θ ⇓ φ ⎮ ⇓ φθ a b f h ⇓ ψ c r s ⇓ θ a b f g ⎮ ⇓ φθ a c r o f s o g. ψ o θ These compositions are required to be associative and unital; moreover, horizontal composition must preserve vertical units and the following interchange law is imposed. (χψ) o(φθ) = (χ oφ) (ψ oθ) a b f g h ⇓ θ ⇓ φ c r s t ⇓ ψ ⇓ χ The basic example of a 2-category is Cat: objects are (small) categories, arrows are functors, and 2-arrows are natural transformations. Indeed, the basic "five rules" for composition of natural transformations appeared in the Appendix of [Gt]. There is a weaker notion of 2-category which occurs in practice. A weak 2-category or bicategory [Bn1] consists of the data and conditions of a 2-category except that the associativity and unital equalities for horizontal composition are replaced by the extra data of invertible natural families of 2-arrows α λ ρ f r m f b f a m r f m r f f f f f , , : () () , : , : , o o o o o o ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ 1 1 called associativity and unital constraints, such that the associativity pentagon (or 3-cocycle condition) α α α α α p m r f p m r f p m r f p m r f () () o o o o o = 1 1 and unit triangle (or normalisation condition) () , , 1 1 r f f r m r f o o λ α ρ = are imposed. In some of the recent literature, bicategories are called 2-categories and 2-categories are called strict 2-categories. A monoidal category V can be identified with the one-object bicategory ΣV whose arrows are objects of V, whose 2-arrows are the arrows of V, whose horizontal composition is the tensor product of V, and whose vertical composition is the composition
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2009
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作者:
H. Irie;T. Otofuji;K.Fukaya;伊藤秀史;S.Koike;T. Funaki;金銅誠之;Yoshiaki Maeda
通讯作者:
Yoshiaki Maeda