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Diffeomorphism-Invariant Spin Network States
John C. Baez, Stephen Sawin
We extend the theory of diffeomorphism-invariant spin network states from the real-analytic category to the smooth category. Suppose that G is a compact connected semisimple Lie gr…
q-alg1997★ 1 cited
An Introduction to n-Categories
John C. Baez
An n-category is some sort of algebraic structure consisting of objects, morphisms between objects, 2-morphisms between morphisms, and so on up to n-morphisms, together with variou…
q-alg1997★ 3 cited
Higher-Dimensional Algebra III: n-Categories and the Algebra of Opetopes
John C. Baez, James Dolan
We give a definition of weak n-categories based on the theory of operads. We work with operads having an arbitrary set S of types, or `S-operads', and given such an operad O, we de…