A homotopy bigroupoid of a topological space

Applied Categorical Structures

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 311-327

  Hardie, K A ^a   Kamps, K H ^b   Kieboom, R W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

2 groupoid; Bicategory; Bigroupoid; Coherence; Homotopical algebra; Homotopy bigroupoid; Homotopy operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035331030     PISSN: 09272852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011270417127     Document Type: Article

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