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Higher categories, that is, n-categories represent promising tools for multi-level complexity studies. Specific notions as, n-categories, periodic table, monoidal, braided, sylleptic, and symmetric categories, categorification and coherence are introduced.
Elements of synthetic differential geometry, SDG, and toposes are outlined.
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Iordache, O. (2011). Category Theory. In: Modeling Multi-Level Systems. Understanding Complex Systems, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17946-4_14
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