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Biequivalences in tricategories
We show that every internal biequivalence in a tricategory T is part of a
biadjoint biequivalence. We give two applications of this result, one for
transporting monoidal structures and one for equipping a monoidal bicategory
with invertible objects with a coherent choice of those inverses.Comment: Accepted for publication, to appear in Theory and Applications of
Categorie
The low-dimensional structures formed by tricategories
We form tricategories and the homomorphisms between them into a bicategory,
whose 2-cells are certain degenerate tritransformations. We then enrich this
bicategory into an example of a three-dimensional structure called a locally
cubical bicategory, this being a bicategory enriched in the monoidal 2-category
of pseudo double categories. Finally, we show that every sufficiently
well-behaved locally cubical bicategory gives rise to a tricategory, and
thereby deduce the existence of a tricategory of tricategories.Comment: 41 pages; v2: final journal versio
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