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A characterization of pie limits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Power
Affiliation:
Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland
Edmund Robinson
Affiliation:
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 6AA

Extract

It is well-known that limits in 2-categories are more complex than limits in ordinary categories. Most readers will at least be familiar with terms such as ‘lax limit’ and ‘pseudo-limit’. In the more modern treatments, these become special cases of a more general class of ‘weighted’ or ‘indexed’ limits (see Kelly [7] and Section 1 of this paper).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1991

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