Weak braided monoidal categories and their homotopy colimits

Mirjam Solberg

We show that the homotopy colimit construction for diagrams of categories with an operad action, recently introduced by Fiedorowicz, Stelzer and Vogt, has the desired homotopy type for diagrams of weak braided monoidal categories. This provides a more flexible way to realize $E_2$ spaces categorically.

Keywords: Weak braided monoidal categories, homotopy colimits, double loop spaces

2010 MSC: Primary 18D10, 18D50; Secondary 55P48

Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 30, 2015, No. 3, pp 40-48.

Published 2015-01-28.

http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/volumes/30/3/30-03.pdf

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