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Title: Orientals as free algebras (English)
Author: Ara, Dimitri
Author: Lafont, Yves
Author: Métayer, François
Language: English
Journal: Higher Structures
ISSN: 2209-0606
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2023
Pages: 293-327
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: The aim of this paper is to give an alternative construction of Street’s cosimplicial object of orientals, based on an idea of Burroni that orientals are free algebras for some algebraic structure on strict $\omega$-categories. More precisely, following Burroni, we define the notion of an expansion on an $\omega$-category and we show that the forgetful functor from strict $\omega$-categories endowed with an expansion to strict $\omega$-categories is monadic. By iterating this monad starting from the empty $\omega$-category, we get a cosimplicial object in strict $\omega$-categories. Our main contribution is to show that this cosimplicial object is the cosimplicial objects of orientals. To do so, we prove, using Steiner's theory of augmented directed chain complexes, a general result for comparing polygraphs having same generators and same linearized sources and targets. (English)
Keyword: augmented directed complexes
Keyword: cones
Keyword: expansions
Keyword: polygraphs
Keyword: orientals
Keyword: simplices
Keyword: strict $\omega$-categories
MSC: 18N30
MSC: 18N50
MSC: 55U10
idZBL: Zbl 1532.18013
idMR: MR4600462
DOI: 10.21136/HS.2023.08
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Date available: 2026-03-13T10:17:06Z
Last updated: 2026-03-13
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/153463
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