diff -r e3ddb8605e32 -r a96ffd48ea3d text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Sun Jun 19 17:31:34 2011 -0600 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sun Jun 19 21:35:30 2011 -0600 @@ -2587,3 +2587,29 @@ To define (binary) composition of $n{+}1$-morphisms, choose the obvious common equator then compose the module maps. The proof that this composition rule is associative is similar to the proof of Lemma \ref{equator-lemma}. + +\medskip + +We end this subsection with some remarks about Morita equivalence of disklike $n$-categories. +Recall that two 1-categories $C$ and $D$ are Morita equivalent if and only if they are equivalent +objects in the 2-category of (linear) 1-categories, bimodules, and intertwinors. +Similarly, we define two disklike $n$-categories to be Morita equivalent if they are equivalent objects in the +$n{+}1$-category of sphere modules. + +Because of the strong duality enjoyed by disklike $n$-categories, the data for such an equivalence lives only in +dimensions 1 and $n+1$ (the middle dimensions come along for free), and this data must satisfy +identities corresponding to Morse cancellations in $n{+}1$-manifolds. +\noop{ % the following doesn't work; need 2^(k+1) different N's, not 2*(k+1) +More specifically, the 1-dimensional part of the data is a 0-sphere module $M = {}_CM_D$ +(categorified bimodule) connecting $C$ and $D$. +From $M$ we can construct various $k$-sphere modules $N^k_{j,E}$ for $0 \le k \le n$, $0\le j \le k$, and $E = C$ or $D$. +$N^k_{j,E}$ can be thought of as the graph of an index $j$ Morse function on the $k$-ball $B^k$ +(so the graph lives in $B^k\times I = B^{k+1}$). +The positive side of the graph is labeled by $E$, the negative side by $E'$ +(where $C' = D$ and $D' = C$), and the codimension-1 +submanifold separating the positive and negative regions is labeled by $M$. +We think of $N^k_{j,E}$ as a $k{+}1$-morphism connecting +} +We plan on treating this in more detail in a future paper. +\nn{should add a few more details} +