Infinity Properads and Infinity Wheeled Properads

• Main Authors: Hackney, Philip (Author), Robertson, Marcy (Author), Yau, Donald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2147
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Algebraic topology.; Algebraic Topology.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.

The topic of this book sits at the interface of the theory of higher categories (in the guise of (∞,1)-categories) and the theory of properads. Properads are devices more general than operads, and enable one to encode bialgebraic, rather than just (co)algebraic, structures.   The text extends both t...