Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of profunctor
In a generic #92;infty-cosmos, whose objects we call #92;infty-categories, we introduce modules (also called profunctors or correspondences) between #92;infty-categories, incarnated as as^([sic]) spans of suitably-defined fibrations with groupoidal fibers.
2015, Emily Riehl, Dominic Verity, “Kan extensions and the calculus of modules for ∞-categories”, in arXiv
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