The elementary construction of formal anafunctors

Document Type : Research Paper

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School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

This article gives an elementary and formal 2-categorical construction of a bicategory of right fractions analogous to anafunctors, starting from a 2-category equipped with a family of covering maps that are fully faithful and co-fully faithful.

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