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\title{The Blob Complex}

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[revision $\ge$ 481;  $\ge$ 26 July 2010]

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We're in the midst of revising this, and hope to have a version on the arXiv soon.

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\paragraph{To do list}

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\item[6] (K) proofs need finishing, then (S) needs to confirm details and try

to make more understandable

\item[7] (S) do some work here -- identity morphisms are still imperfect. Say something about the cobordism and stabilization hypotheses \cite{MR1355899} in this setting?

\item[7.6] is new! (S) read

\item[8] improve the beginning, finish proof for products,

check the argument about maps

\item[9] (K) proofs trail off

\item Make clear exactly what counts as a ``blob diagram", and search for

``blob diagram"

\item Say something about stabilizing an $n$-category (centre), taking the top $k$ levels of a category, and the stabilization hypothesis?

\item say something about starting with semisimple n-cat (trivial?? not trivial?)

\item maybe to do: add appendix on various versions of acyclic models

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This paper is available online at \arxiv{?????}, and at

\url{http://tqft.net/blobs},

and at \url{http://canyon23.net/math/}.

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