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A multicategory is a ... with one object?

We all know that A monoidal category is a bicategory with one object. How do we fill in the blank in the following sentence? A multicategory is a ... with one object. The answer is fairly ...
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Enriched Cauchy completions and underlying categories

The ordinary Cauchy completion $\overline{C}$ of a small category $C$ satisfies a number of conditions: Every idempotent in $\overline{C}$ splits, there's an equivalence of categories $[C^{op}, Set] \...
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Ends and coends – analogues for higher arity – Horn Filling

Consider the setting of categories enriched over a suitable monoidal category $\mathbb V$. We define $$\mathrm{Dist}(X,Y):=\mathbb V−\mathrm{Cat}(X^ \mathrm{op}⊗Y,\mathbb V).$$ Recall the definition ...
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