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An (, 2)-Categorical Theory of Spans

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Let be an -category with pullbacks. In this section, we will associate to a new -category , called the -category of spans in , which is an (, 1)-categorical variant of the span category introduced in § 3.3.

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Dyckerhoff, T., Kapranov, M. (2019). An (, 2)-Categorical Theory of Spans. In: Higher Segal Spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2244. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27124-4_10

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