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Stream: theory: category theory

Topic: Looking for references on enriched bicategories

Emily (Mar 01 2021 at 00:59):

Are the references

• S. M. Carmody, Cobordism Categories, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995.
• Steve Lack, The algebra of distributive and extensive categories, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995.
• Alex Hoffnung, Notes on enrichment

listed in the nLab page for enriched bicategories available somewhere?

David Michael Roberts (Mar 01 2021 at 04:56):

I had a look for Lack's thesis recently, with no luck. I think easiest would be to email him about that one.

Emily (Mar 01 2021 at 05:27):

Thanks! I'll email him.

John Baez (Mar 01 2021 at 06:03):

Alex Hoffnung was my student but I don't recall seeing his "Notes on enrichment".

David Michael Roberts (Mar 01 2021 at 06:15):

For what it's worth, I just tweeted Alex to see if he has a copy of the notes.

Joe Moeller (Mar 01 2021 at 21:13):

I have a copy of Carmody's thesis. Not sure why it's not available anywhere online.

David Michael Roberts (Mar 01 2021 at 22:10):

Is Carmody contactable? Any conceivable objections to keeping a copy on a computer accidentally visible from the rest of the internet (à la Andrew Ranicki's "personal collection" of papers)

Joe Moeller (Mar 01 2021 at 22:21):

I haven't tried. I got my copy from someone else who happened to have it.

David Michael Roberts (Mar 12 2021 at 04:02):

@Théo Alex sent me a copy of the notes on enrichment! If you drop me an email at one of the addresses listed at my nLab page, I can send it on to you. I will also upload the file to the nLab, which Alex has agreed to, so future generations can benefit.

Emily (Mar 12 2021 at 07:11):

@David Michael Roberts Thank you so much, David! I've sent you an email :)

Simon Willerton (Apr 30 2021 at 15:06):

Hi David, Hope you're well. Did you upload Alex Hoffnung "Notes on Enrichment" to the nlab? The link at https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/enriched+bicategory is still to the dead UC Riverside URL. If not could you forward me a copy?

Cheers,

David Michael Roberts (Jun 02 2021 at 11:20):

@Simon Willerton sorry, I didn't see this until now. If you'd @-mentioned me I would have been pinged. I've just now uploaded the pdf that Alex sent me so that it's hosted on the nLab.

Simon Willerton (Jun 02 2021 at 13:55):

I think I thought I'd PMed you, hence the chit-chat at the beginning! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Simon Willerton (Jun 02 2021 at 13:58):

Anyway, thanks for the upload, got it now.