text/intro.tex
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parent 685 8efbd2730ef9
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--- a/text/intro.tex	Mon Jan 10 14:18:52 2011 -0800
+++ b/text/intro.tex	Mon Jan 10 15:25:53 2011 -0800
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 that we are enriching in.
 We have decided to call them ``$A_\infty$ $n$-categories", since they are a natural generalization 
 of the familiar $A_\infty$ 1-categories.
-Other possible names include ``homotopy $n$-categories" and ``infinity $n$-categories".
-When we need to emphasize that we are talking about an $n$-category which is not $A_\infty$
+We also considered the names ``homotopy $n$-categories" and ``infinity $n$-categories".
+When we need to emphasize that we are talking about an $n$-category which is not $A_\infty$ in this sense
 we will say ``ordinary $n$-category".
 % small problem: our n-cats are of course strictly associative, since we have more morphisms.
 % when we say ``associative only up to homotopy" above we are thinking about
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 more traditional and combinatorial definitions.
 We will call instances of our definition ``disk-like $n$-categories", since $n$-dimensional disks
 play a prominent role in the definition.
-(In general we prefer to ``$k$-ball" to ``$k$-disk", but ``ball-like" doesn't roll off 
-the tongue as well as "disk-like".)
+(In general we prefer ``$k$-ball" to ``$k$-disk", but ``ball-like" doesn't roll off 
+the tongue as well as ``disk-like''.)
 
 Another thing we need a name for is the ability to rotate morphisms around in various ways.
 For 2-categories, ``pivotal" is a standard term for what we mean.
@@ -530,9 +530,9 @@
 rotating $k$-morphisms correspond to all the ways of rotating $k$-balls.
 We sometimes refer to this as ``strong duality", and sometimes we consider it to be implied
 by ``disk-like".
-(But beware: disks can come in various flavors, and some of them (such as framed disks)
+(But beware: disks can come in various flavors, and some of them, such as framed disks,
 don't actually imply much duality.)
-Another possibility here is ``pivotal $n$-category".
+Another possibility considered here was ``pivotal $n$-category", but we prefer to preserve pivotal for its usual sense. It will thus be a theorem that our disk-like 2-categories are equivalent to pivotal 2-categories, c.f. \S \ref{ssec:2-cats}.
 
 Finally, we need a general name for isomorphisms between balls, where the balls could be
 piecewise linear or smooth or topological or Spin or framed or etc., or some combination thereof.