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2012 Associahedra and weak monoidal structures on categories
Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, Steven Gubkin, Rainer M Vogt
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 12(1): 469-492 (2012). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2012.12.469

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This paper answers the following question: what algebraic structure on a category corresponds to an An structure (in the sense of Stasheff) on the geometric realization of its nerve?

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Zbigniew Fiedorowicz. Steven Gubkin. Rainer M Vogt. "Associahedra and weak monoidal structures on categories." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 12 (1) 469 - 492, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2012.12.469

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Received: 3 June 2010; Revised: 7 November 2011; Accepted: 27 November 2011; Published: 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 19 December 2017

zbMATH: 1276.18007
MathSciNet: MR2916284
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2012.12.469

Subjects:
Primary: 18D10 , 55P48
Secondary: 06A07

Keywords: associahedra , monoidal category , operad , Tamari lattice

Rights: Copyright © 2012 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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