A note on the (infty,n)-category of cobordisms
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In this extended note we give a precise definition of fully extended topological field theories \`a la Lurie. Using complete $n$-fold Segal spaces as a model, we construct an $(\infty,n)$-category of $n$-dimensional cobordisms, possibly with tangential structure. We endow it with a symmetric monoidal structure and show that we can recover the usual category of cobordisms $n\operatorname{Cob}$ and the cobordism bicategory $n\operatorname{Cob}^{ext}$ from it.
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