diff -r 296fcf7e5914 -r 7abe7642265e text/appendixes/comparing_defs.tex --- a/text/appendixes/comparing_defs.tex Tue Aug 09 23:22:07 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/appendixes/comparing_defs.tex Tue Aug 09 23:55:13 2011 -0700 @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ \label{sec:comparing-defs} In \S\ref{sec:example:traditional-n-categories(fields)} we showed how to construct -a topological $n$-category from a traditional $n$-category; the morphisms of the -topological $n$-category are string diagrams labeled by the traditional $n$-category. +a disk-like $n$-category from a traditional $n$-category; the morphisms of the +disk-like $n$-category are string diagrams labeled by the traditional $n$-category. In this appendix we sketch how to go the other direction, for $n=1$ and 2. The basic recipe, given a disk-like $n$-category $\cC$, is to define the $k$-morphisms of the corresponding traditional $n$-category to be $\cC(B^k)$, where @@ -575,11 +575,11 @@ \subsection{\texorpdfstring{$A_\infty$}{A-infinity} 1-categories} \label{sec:comparing-A-infty} In this section, we make contact between the usual definition of an $A_\infty$ category -and our definition of a disk-like $A_\infty$ $1$-category, from \S \ref{ss:n-cat-def}. +and our definition of an $A_\infty$ disk-like $1$-category, from \S \ref{ss:n-cat-def}. \medskip -Given a disk-like $A_\infty$ $1$-category $\cC$, we define an ``$m_k$-style" +Given an $A_\infty$ disk-like $1$-category $\cC$, we define an ``$m_k$-style" $A_\infty$ $1$-category $A$ as follows. The objects of $A$ are $\cC(pt)$. The morphisms of $A$, from $x$ to $y$, are $\cC(I; x, y)$ @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ Operad associativity for $A$ implies that this gluing map is independent of the choice of $g$ and the choice of representative $(f_i, a_i)$. -It is straightforward to verify the remaining axioms for a disk-like $A_\infty$ 1-category. +It is straightforward to verify the remaining axioms for a $A_\infty$ disk-like 1-category.