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Title: Cubical $(\omega,p)$-categories (English)
Author: Lucas, Maxime
Language: English
Journal: Higher Structures
ISSN: 2209-0606
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Year: 2018
Pages: 191-233
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: In this article we introduce the notion of cubical $(\omega, p)$-categories, for $p \in \Bbb N \cup \{\omega\}$. We show that the equivalence between globular and groupoid $\omega$-categories proven by Al-Agl, Brown and Steiner induces an equivalence between globular and cubical $(\omega, p)$-categories for all $p \geq 0$. In particular we recover in a more explicit fashion the equivalence between globular and cubical groupoids proven by Brown and Higgins. We also define the notion of $(\omega, p)$-augmented directed complexes, and show that Steiner’s adjunction between augmented directed complexes and globular $\omega$-categories induces adjunctions between $(\omega, p)$-augmented directed complexes and both globular and cubical $(\omega, p)$-categories. Combinatorially, the difficulty lies in defining the appropriate notion of invertibility for a cell in a cubical $\omega$-category. We investigate three such possible definitions and the relationships between them. We show that cubical $(\omega, 1)$-categories have a natural structure of symmetric cubical categories. We give an explicit description of the notions of lax, oplax and pseudo transfors between cubical categories, the latter making use of the notion of invertible cell defined previously. (English)
Keyword: Higher categories
Keyword: cubical categories
MSC: 18D05
MSC: 18G35
idZBL: Zbl 1409.18006
idMR: MR3917429
DOI: 10.21136/HS.2018.06
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Date available: 2026-03-10T17:40:13Z
Last updated: 2026-03-10
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/153405
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