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| author | Dean, Christopher J. Finster, Eric Markakis, Ioannis Reutter, David Vicary, Jamie |
| author_facet | Dean, Christopher J. Finster, Eric Markakis, Ioannis Reutter, David Vicary, Jamie |
| contents | We give a new description of computads for weak globular $ω$-categories by giving an explicit inductive definition of the free words. This yields a new understanding of computads, and allows a new definition of $ω$-category that avoids the technology of globular operads. Our framework permits direct proofs of important results via structural induction, and we use this to give new proofs that every $ω$-category is equivalent to a free one, and that the category of computads with generator-preserving maps is a presheaf topos, giving a direct description of the index category. We prove that our resulting definition of $ω$-category agrees with that of Batanin and Leinster and that the induced notion of cofibrant replacement for $ω$-categories coincides with that of Garner. |
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| publishDate | 2022 |
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| spellingShingle | Computads for weak $ω$-categories as an inductive type Dean, Christopher J. Finster, Eric Markakis, Ioannis Reutter, David Vicary, Jamie Category Theory We give a new description of computads for weak globular $ω$-categories by giving an explicit inductive definition of the free words. This yields a new understanding of computads, and allows a new definition of $ω$-category that avoids the technology of globular operads. Our framework permits direct proofs of important results via structural induction, and we use this to give new proofs that every $ω$-category is equivalent to a free one, and that the category of computads with generator-preserving maps is a presheaf topos, giving a direct description of the index category. We prove that our resulting definition of $ω$-category agrees with that of Batanin and Leinster and that the induced notion of cofibrant replacement for $ω$-categories coincides with that of Garner. |
| title | Computads for weak $ω$-categories as an inductive type |
| topic | Category Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08719 |