Urs, you mention Chinese character diagrams (which you call Chern-Simons diagrams). The standard name for these is now Jacobi diagrams. (See eg the book by Chmutov, Duzhin and Mostovoy or the book by Jackson and Moffatt).
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]]>Is the enriched bicategory of -profunctors considered in the literature anywhere? Here I want to be, say, a complete, cocomplete, closed, symmetric monoidal category; and by enriched bicategory I mean -enriched at the 2-cell level, or, equivalenty, -cat enriched at the hom level.
At the enriched bicategory page, three of the interesting looking references are seemingly unavailable, namely Sean Carmody’s thesis, Steve Lack’s thesis and Alex Hoffnung’s notes. Does anyone know if these are online anywhere? (I realise I could email Steve or Alex, but having links from the nlab page would be even better.)
This ought to be a protoytpical example of a -cat enriched bicategory, and it would be nice if someone has already proved it!
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]]>What exactly would it mean for a string connection to be a HQFT?
I don’t know if you looked in the paper I wrote with Ulrich Bunke and Paul Turner Gerbes and homotopy quantum field theories but that might be of some use. [Sorry for the rather rushed response.]
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