# Spahn directed object (Rev #1)

Let $\Delta$ denote the simplex category. This is the category having finite ordinals as objects and as morphisms monotone maps thereof.

Let $X:\Delta^{op}\to Set$ be a simplicial set?. The category of simplicial sets we denote by $s Set:=Psh(\Delta)$.

Let $\Delta_0$ be the terminal category (the category with one object $*$ and one morphism $id_*$. Then $Psh(\Delta_0)=Set_{disc}$ is the discrete category of sets; this is the class of sets and the class of morphisms consists only of the identities.

Let $Q:=\{1 \stackrel{\overset{d_0}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{d_1}{\leftarrow}} 0\}^{op}$ denote the category with two objects and morphism set $\{s,t,id_0,id_1\}$. $Q$ is called the walking quiver.

A functor $q:\{1 \stackrel{\overset{d_0}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{d_1}{\leftarrow}} 0\}^{op}\to Set$ is called a quiver?. This is just a directed graph perhaps with multiple edges and loops.

Denote the category of quivers with natural transformations thereof as morphisms by $Quiver:=Psh(Q)$.

Revision on November 7, 2012 at 18:40:07 by Stephan Alexander Spahn?. See the history of this page for a list of all contributions to it.