Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 152679
10 votes
Accepted

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 …
varkor's user avatar
  • 10.7k
8 votes

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 …
varkor's user avatar
  • 10.7k
5 votes

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 $\mathrm{Bord}_0^2$ …
varkor's user avatar
  • 10.7k
1 vote
0 answers
131 views

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 …
varkor's user avatar
  • 10.7k