nLab Segal's category

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This entry is about the small category named after Graeme Segal. Not to be confused with the model in higher category theory called Segal categories.

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Definition

Definition

Segal’s category, denoted Γ\Gamma is the category opposite to the skeleton of the category FinSet */FinSet^{*/} of pointed finite sets:

Γ opFinSet */. \Gamma^{op} \simeq FinSet^{*/} \,.
Remark

The category Γ\Gamma is related to (infinity,1)-operads in a way similar to how the simplex category (non-empty and linearly ordered finite sets) is related to (∞,1)-categories.

Remark

A morphism f:{*}S{*}Tf \colon \{*\} \coprod S \to \{*\} \coprod T in Γ\Gamma may be thought of as a partially defined function f˜:ST\tilde f \colon S \to T which is undefined on all elements of SS that ff sends to the point.

References

For instance notation 2.0.0.2 in

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