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Has the mathematical content of Grothendieck’s “Récoltes et Semailles” been used?

dec 14 10 at 8:51 Minhyong Kim 7,219●5●30●52

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In which situations can one see that topological spaces are ill-behaved from the homotopical viewpoint?

feb 7 12 at 10:30 Ronnie Brown 5,486●19●21

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What has happened to Lang’s Files and other political texts?

may 30 at 22:47 Steven Landsburg 9,551●1●29●52

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Is there a standard name for a 2-category which has an object z such that, for every object x, the category Hom(x,z) has a terminal object?

oct 22 at 7:45 Jonathan Chiche 1,441●1●7●17

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How do various notions of natural transformation relate to various notions of homotopy in $2Cat$?

jan 3 12 at 9:01 Jonathan Chiche 1,441●1●7●17

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Is there any elementary text unravelling the definitions of 2-category, lax functor and lax transformation, allowing people who do not know in the first place what these things are to really understand the definitions?

jan 9 12 at 9:01 Jonathan Chiche 1,441●1●7●17

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Does the category of strict $2$-categories together with Dwyer-Kan equivalences provide a model for $(\infty,1)$-categories?

dec 25 11 at 12:13 Chris Schommer-Pries 10.4k●1●18●57

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Where is it rigorously stated and proved that the definition of lax functor implies that the generalized cocycle condition holds for an arbitrary number of composable $1$-cells?

nov 2 at 21:02 Buschi Sergio 1,809●1●4●8

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What is the history of the notion of subdivision of categories?

jul 31 at 8:43 Jonathan Chiche 1,441●1●7●17

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What should be the terminology regarding symmetries in 2-Cat?

nov 10 at 19:53 Jonathan Chiche 1,441●1●7●17