I hope I can offer some quick answers to your questions without errors.
Let's tackle the breaking down:
- As indicated in the paper, the notion of "free generation" comes from Street's earlier The Algebra of Oriented
Simplices. I believe
this notion is to be read as-is without change from the corrigenda.
Yes, it is the notion of freeness of this article. Using some rephrasing, it
means that there exists a polygraph/computad P such that $O(C)$ is isomorphic
to $P^*$, the free $\omega$-category on $P$.
- I believe that as originally written (but see (5) below), $C$ was intended to be an arbitrary parity
complex, a notion
defined in Section 1 of the paper; I believe this definition is
faithfully reproduced at the linked nlab page (the nlab's $<$ being
Street's $\triangleleft$ and the nlab's $\prec$ being Street's
$\blacktriangleleft$).
It seems that the well-formed condition of parity complexes is badly
reproduced in the nlab (condition 2.). Indeed, it not only a condition on the 1-cells but
also on higher cells. Moreover, nlab's $<$ is Street's $<$ and nlab's $\prec$
is Street's $\triangleleft$.
- $O(C)$ is the $\omega$-category defined at the beginning of Section 3. It is proven in Theorem 3.6 that for any parity complex
$C$, $O(C)$ is an $\omega$-category. I believe that Theorem 3.6 is
understood to be true as stated -- the corrigenda does not indicate
that the definition of $O(C)$ (or the subsidiary notions of cells or
well-formed subsets of $C$) need be changed, nor does it indicate that any additional hypothesis on the parity complex $C$ is needed to
ensure that $O(C)$ is an $\omega$-category (Thm 3.6).
If I remember correctly, yes, the additions of the corrigenda is not required
in order to obtain an $\omega$-category. So one can start from any parity complex.
- The notion of an atom is as defined in Section 4 of the paper.
Yes.
- I believe the corrigenda indicates that the statement of Thm 4.2 should be changed as follows. On p. 1 of the corrigenda, it is
indicated that for every element $x \in C_p$ of the parity complex
$C$, we need to assume throughout Section 4 (including, apparently, in
the statement of Thm 4.2) that the sets $\mu(x)$ (defined at the
beginning of Section 4, with the definition corrected at the beginning
of the corrigenda) are tight in the sense defined further down p. 1
of the corrigenda.
Yes, this correta seems correct to me.
Question 2: Can the corrected statement of Theorem 4.2 be simplified by assuming something about the "globularity condition"
rather than explicitly assuming something about tightness?
No, it can not be simplified to a globularity condition. The counter-example I gave in my
article is a parity complex which satisfies the globularity condition. Still,
Theorem 4.2 does not hold for this example.
By the way, it is no coincidence that Theorem 4.2 of Street's paper is not covered by Buckley, since it does not hold in its full generality with or without the corrigenda (but the counter-examples, like the already cited one, are very peculiar, so that most if not all the examples which use parity complexes in the literature should be fine).