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    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeSep 26th 2021

    Create a stub page.

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    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeSep 26th 2021

    I apologise in advance for the format of the page and the citation style. Is there a way we can generate the appropriate citations directly from BibTeX? It is tedious to do so by hand.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeSep 26th 2021

    here is what I do, it’s easy:

    • send Google the paper title

    • find the published page among the first few hits

    • click on “cite as” or similar

    • copy-and-paste what it offers:

    In the present case I immediately get this:

    • John Gray, The meeting of the Midwest Category Seminar in Zurich August 24–30, 1970, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 195. Springer 1971, pp. 254–255 (doi:10.1007%2FBFb0072315)

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    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeSep 26th 2021

    Ah, I see, thank you!

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    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2024

    Can you comment on what is the raison behind the terminology ?

  6. I haven’t checked the references, but am pretty sure it refers to recovering a 2-category as the 2-category Hom(A op,CAT)\mathsf{Hom}(A^{op}, \mathsf{CAT}) for some AA. In other words, one can glue various 2-categories together to recover one’s original one. This is where the interval category in the conditions comes in: it is pretty obvious that one can build up any category by gluing together intervals and imposing equality conditions on arrows, and this is just an enrichment of that idea.

    Gluing

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    • CommentAuthorAlexanderCampbell
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2024
    • (edited Sep 4th 2024)
    My recollection is that such a 2-category was called representable simply because certain limit constructions are representable in it. I don't remember now whether I got that from Gray's (or Street's) writing or from my own imagination. I would regard this as obsolete terminology.

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