2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/67153We continue our previous modifications of the Baez-Dolan theory of opetopes to modify the Baez-Dolan definition of universality, and thereby the category of opetopic n-categories and lax functors. For the case n=2 we exhibit an equivalence between this category and the category of bicategories and lax functors. We examine notions of strictness in the opetopic theory.58 pagesCategory TheoryOpetopic bicategories: comparison with the classical theorytext