Higher-dimensional Mac Lane's pentagon and Zamolodchikov equations
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Higher-dimensional Mac Lane's pentagon and Zamolodchikov equations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0991.18006
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4049(01)00102-5
author: Sjoerd E. Crans
published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
publication date: 2002-04-07T00:00:00Z
review text: A six-dimensional diagram is presented whose commutativity is asserted to imply that all diagrams commute in a particular kind of weak 6-category. How this extends Mac Lanes pentagon for associativity and the relationship with the Zamolodchikov equations are explained.
reviewed by: Ross H. Street
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81R50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18D10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T99
zbMATH DE Number: 1724906
zbMATH Keywords: pentagon
zbMATH Keywords: teisi
zbMATH Keywords: weak n-category
zbMATH Keywords: tricategory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1724906