Infinity Properads and Infinity Wheeled Properads

by Marcy Robertson, Philip Hackney, Donald Yau

The topic of this book sits at the interface of the theory of higher categories (in the guise of (∞,1)-categories) and the theory of properads. Properads are devices more general than operads and enable one to encode bialgebraic, rather than just (co)algebraic, structures.

The text extends both the Joyal-Lurie approach to higher categories and the Cisinski-Moerdijk-Weiss approach to higher operads, and provides a foundation for a broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319205463
• ISBN13: 9783319205465
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"