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The category of groupoids admits a “stabilization” in which the morphisms are given by the group completion of the commutative monoid of suitable bisets. In this paper we enrich this to a bicategory structure, and provide an alternative model using spans of groupoids.
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Dedicated to the memory of Gaunce Lewis, 1950–2006, and Sam Gitler, 1933–2014.
