Let denote the simplex category. This is the category having finite ordinals as objects and as morphisms monotone maps thereof.
We define the category of simplicial setsby .
Let be the terminal category (the category with one object and one morphism . Then is the discrete category of sets; this is the class of sets and the class of morphisms consists only of the identities.
Let denote the category with two objects and morphism set . is called the walking quiver.
A functor is called a quiver?. This is just a directed graph perhaps with multiple edges and loops.
We denote the category of quivers with natural transformations thereof as morphisms by .
Are there for the objects in , or directed past space objects ?
The interval object in any of these categories is . Let