Definition 3.7. If , , , and
, we will use or to denote the
web in with indexing data or , as appropriate.
Analogously, we write and for -indexed webs in and
respectively. If the indexing data is fixed, we will sometimes omit it from the notation (e.g.
and ) and say that the webs and
correspond to each other.
If is a chain map and and are webs in the source and target complexes, then we write
for the component of from to .