This is a page for listing notational conventions regarding decorated and structured cospans, fibrations, etc. in the papers written by John Baez, Daniel Cicala, Kenny Courser, Jade Master, Joe Moeller and Christina Vasilakopoulou.
For examples of papers obeying these conventions see:
We use \mathsf for categories, \mathbf for bicategories and use \mathbb in the first letter for double categories, boldface for the rest. So, for example, in applications to Markov processes we have a category , a bicategory and a double category . They look better in an actual paper!
We use as our general example of a left adjoint in the theory of structured cospans, and for its right adjoint. We call the resulting double category of structured cospans . This in turn gives a bicategory and a category .
In the theory of decorated cospans is an opfibration corresponding to some pseudofunctor . We call the resulting double category of decorated cospans . This in turn gives a bicategory and a category .
Placing these macros in your LaTeX preamble can help simplify following the conventions.
: \newcommand{\cat}[1]{\mathsf}
: \newcommand{\bicat}[1]{\mathbf}
: \newcommand{\doublecat}[1]{\mathbf{\mathbb #1}}