Monoidal Globular Categories As a Natural Environment for the Theory of Weakn-Categories

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-103

  Batanin, M A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0002445683     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/aima.1998.1724     Document Type: Article

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