endobifunctor

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noun

A bifunctor between a bicategory and itself.

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Meanings

nounendobifunctor (plural endobifunctors)

plural endobifunctors

  1. mathematicsA bifunctor between a bicategory and itself.

    Motivated by topology, we develop a general theory of traces and shadows in an endobicategory, which is a bicategory #92;mathbfC with an endobifunctor #92;Sigma#92;colon#92;mathbfC#92;to#92;mathbfC.

    2016, Anna Beliakova, Krzysztof Karol Putyra, Stephan Martin Wehrli, “Quantum Link Homology via Trace Functor I”, in arXiv

Origin

From endo- + bifunctor.

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