Colimits of Enriched Categories
Abstract
We introduce categories of strings to give an explicit hom-object formula for colimits of enriched categories. As corollaries, we recover the necklace construction by Dugger and Spivak and describe colimits in Cat and of Lawvere metric spaces.
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