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Publications and source records attributed to Eugenia Cheng.
We address the fact that composition in an opetopic weak n-category is in general not unique and hence is not a well-defined operation. We define composition with a given k-cell in an n-category by a span of (n-k)-categories. We characterise such a cell as universal if its composition span gives an equivalence of (n-k)-categories.
We give a precise description of combed trees in terms of Kelly-Mac Lane graphs. We show that any combed tree is uniquely expressed as an allowable Kelly-Mac Lane graph of a certain shape. Conversely, we show that any such Kelly-Mac Lane graph uniquely defines a combed tree.
This paper follows from two earlier works. In the first we gave an explicit construction of opetopes, the underlying cell shapes in the theory of opetopic n-categories; at the heart of this construction is the use of certain trees. In the second we gave a description of trees using Kelly-Mac Lane graphs. In the present paper we apply the latter to the former, to give a construction of opetopes using Kelly-Mac Lane graphs.