The compact symmetric multicategories (CSMs) introduced by Joyal and Kock in their 2011 note 'Feynman Graphs, and Nerve Theorem for Compact Symmetric Multicategories' [JK11] directly generalise a number of unital operad types, such as wheeled properads, that admit a contraction operation as well as an operadic multiplication. These structures are known to exhibit strange behaviour related to the contraction of units, and this is problematic for [JK11]. In this thesis, I modify the construction of [JK11] to obtain non unital (coloured) modular operads as algebras for a monad defined in terms of connected graphs, and use this as a foundation for a new construction of CSMs based on special graph morphisms. A corresponding nerve theorem characterises CSMs in terms of a Segal condition. This construction sheds light, and provides some control, on the behaviour of the contracted units.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:742386 |
Date | January 2018 |
Creators | Raynor, Sophia C. |
Publisher | University of Aberdeen |
Source Sets | Ethos UK |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Source | http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236493 |
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