Lax 2 -categories and directed homotopy

Marco Grandis

Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques (2006)

  • Volume: 47, Issue: 2, page 107-128
  • ISSN: 1245-530X

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Grandis, Marco. "Lax $2$-categories and directed homotopy." Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques 47.2 (2006): 107-128. <http://eudml.org/doc/91703>.

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