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• I have just made links to all of the contentful orphaned paged on the main nLab web. However, they may still be walled gardens; Instiki doesn't find those automatically.

In general, when you create a new page, it's a good idea to create a link to it from some existing page on a more general topic. (The links that I just made may not have been the best!) That way, it's more likely that people will actually find their way to your new page.

• I wanted to start expanding on the big story at nonabelian Lie algebra cohomology, but then found myself wanting to polish first a bit further the background material.

I came to think that it is about time to collect our stuff on "oo-Lie theory".

and added it to most of the relevant entries.

This toc is based on the one on my personal web here -- but much larger now -- and still contains some links to my web, where I am trying to develop the full story. If anyone feels ill-at-ease with these links to my personal web, let me know.

• considerably expanded the entry strict 2-group.

• Apart from adding an introductory discussion, and expanding the list of examples, in particular by adding that of automorphism 2-groups ...

• ... I in particular give the detailed translation prescription for how to encode a 2-group by a crossed module at In terms of crossed modules

This is to eventually serve as a supplement to the discussion at nonabelian group cohomology. So I spent some energy on disentangling the four different (though isomorphic) ways a crossed module gives rise to a 2-group (following my article with David Roberts).

• I created [[Riemann surface]] and [[Myers-Steenrod theorem]].

• created quick stub for framed bicategory

but my machine's battery will die any second now...

• It looked to me like Urs hit Ctrl-V instead of Ctrl-C there, so I rolled back, but now Urs is editing again, so probably he's just doing something that I interrupted. Since I can't leave a note there now, I'll leave one here: I won't interfere again, Urs.

• added to (infinity,1)-operad the definition/proposition of the model structure for the category of (oo,1)-categories of operations here

• I added to vertical categorification the comments that I'd made at MathOverflow, as Urs has requested. I'm not sure that I'm happy with where I put them and how I labelled them, but maybe it's better if other people judge that.

• Added some more to the ongoing discussion about composition at evil.

(fixed)
• I'd like to add the following "shape" to http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/limit#types_of_shapes_of_limit_cones_17 :

The limit of the identity functor Id: C --> C is the initial object of C (it it exists).
• I've added the latest, almost complete, draft of my thesis to my personal web - go via David Roberts. Comments on introduction are welcome, if you feel so inclined. Just put them on David Roberts.

On a related note, is it quite legitimate to post updates on personal webs here? (Now that I've already done it)

David Roberts
• I edited Trimble n-category:

• moved the query boxes that seemed to contain closed discussion to the bottom. I kept the query box where I ask for a section about category theory for Trimble n-categories, but maybe we want to remove that, too. Todd has more on this on his personal web.

• Edited the page category theory. Mostly about that certain presheaves are the same as categories and the long discussion at the end with an idea how to solve my problem about CW-complexes. Removed precursors link since there is nothing about them in nLab. This new logging is a bit confusing and harder to read.

-Rafael
• In the lab book metaphor, this page is some jottings of stuff that I'm pretty sure must be out there (as it's a fairly obvious thing to do) but have no idea of what it's called (hedgehogs, perhaps?). So I'd be grateful if someone strong in the ways of Lawvere theories could stop by and help me out.

(Plus I had to make up the notation and terminology as I went along so that's all horrible)

Hopefully the big box at the top of the page makes this clear!

• I apologize in case this discussion is already open and I have been unable to find it.

There is something I am unable to undrstand in the definition of extended TQFT as on the nLab page http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/extended+topological+quantum+field+theory

Namely, it seems to me that the recursive definition should rather end with "smooth compact oriented (n-m+1)-manifolds to R-linear (m?2)-categories"
• One of these has started (or continued) a conversation at the bottom of graph.

• I'm guessing that ferrim is spam. If no-one says anything to the contrary within 24hrs then I'll add it to the spam category.

If it is spam, it's either a random spambot post or it's someone testing to see how vigilant we are. If the latter, as there's no content then they may simply test to see if the link stays active. In which case, our previous "policy" of blanking the content won't send the right signal here (especially as there's no content to blank). Is there any objection to renaming spam entries? Say, as 'spam (original title)' (or whatever the allowable punctuation characters are)?

• In entry groupoid object in an (infinity,1)-category there is a passage

"it is the generalization of Stasheff H-space from Top to more general ?-stack (?,1)-topoi: an object that comes equipped with an associative and invertible monoid structure, up to coherent homotopy"

I repeat what I documented in earlier discussion on H-space: H-spaces are widely used terminology since 1950, thus before Stasheff work which of course is an important work on coherencies for them. So it is likely improper to say Stasheff H-space...Stasheff has REFINEMENTS of H-spaces, namely $A_n$-spaces and the group-like case is A infty spaces.