Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 10, issue 1 (2010)

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Nerves and classifying spaces for bicategories

Pilar Carrasco, Antonio M Cegarra and Antonio R Garzón

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 10 (2010) 219–274

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2010.10.219

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