double category
Aaron David Fairbanks
Definitions
Transfors between 2-categories
Morphisms in 2-categories
Structures in 2-categories
Limits in 2-categories
Structures on 2-categories
A double category is an internal category in Cat. Similarly, a double groupoid is an internal groupoid in Grpd.
However, these definitions obscure the essential symmetry of the concepts. We think of a double category as having
We may picture a 2-cell in a double category as a square:
Here are objects, and are horizontal arrows, and are vertical arrows.
