Background: Classical categorical structures -- Classical operads and multicategories -- Notions of monoidal category -- Operads. Generalized operads and multicategories: basics -- Example: fc-multicategories -- Generalized operads and multicategories: further theory -- Opetopes -- n-categories: Globular operads -- A definition of weak n-category -- Other definitions of weak n-category -- Appendices: A. Symmetric structures -- B. Coherence for monoidal categories -- C. Special Cartesian monads -- D. Free multicategories -- E. Definitions of trees -- F. Free strict n-categories -- G. Initial operad-with-contraction
Summary
Foundations of higher dimensional category theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-416) and index
