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Standard reference for double category theory

The short answer is that, no, there does not (yet) exist a good introduction/reference for double category theory. Part of the reason for this is that double category theory only started to enjoy a su …
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J.W. Gray's monumental work notes on the formal theory of internal (2-)categories

I asked Peter Johnstone about this citation, and he told me that he included the reference, despite not having a copy of the manuscript, since John Gray had been promising a book on the subject for ma …
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Internal $2$-categories

Bicategories internal to 2-categories with pullbacks are defined in §3 of Douglas–Henriques's Internal bicategories. They have two motivating examples described in §1: a bicategory $\mathrm{Bord}_0^2$ …
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Universal property of the V-Mat construction

Internal categories and enriched categories can both be realised as monads in certain bicategories. If $\mathcal E$ is a category with pullbacks, then a monad in $\mathbf{Span}(\mathcal E)$ is a categ …