ARRINDELLZ@aol.com writes:
Hi,Prof.(I having trouble posting msg on the net) so maybe you can help, a Categorist whan-na-be.
I read somewhere on the web that "Monodromy is a general concept in category theory involving the globalization of local morphism." I cannot find any work in Categorical Monodromy.
Do you know of any Categorical Monodromy paper I can read?
Thanks
That quote looks straight form Mathworld :-). It seems a bit misleading. Monodromy comes to us from classical complex analysis (where it is about uniqueness of analytic continuation) and has been greatly generalized to the point of becoming "a general concept ... involving the globalization of local morphism." But this is not about category theory per se, but rather a variety of applications. In any case here are a few pointers to information on the web: http://www.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/public/mathematics/research/preprints/93... projecteuclid.org/Dienst/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/euclid.dmj/1014136431/body/pdfview modular.fas.harvard.edu/papers/ants/kohel_stein.ps www.pacjmath.org/p/2002/205-2-2.pdf www.mccme.ru/ium/ium10/katzar.html The first is the arichive of papers by Ronald Brown, a number of which discruss monodromy in the context of homotopy theory. Other areas where it appears include algebraic geometry, number theory, PDEs, . . . -- Robert L. Knighten Robert@Knighten.org 22-Aug-2002 19:50:49 -0300,1278;000000000001-00000000