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Adjoint functor theorems for $\infty$-categories

Category Theory 2019-09-18 v3 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Adjoint functor theorems give necessary and sufficient conditions for a functor to admit an adjoint. In this paper we prove general adjoint functor theorems for functors between \infty-categories. One of our main results is an \infty-categorical generalization of Freyd's classical General Adjoint Functor Theorem. As an application of this result, we recover Lurie's adjoint functor theorems for presentable \infty-categories. We also discuss the comparison between adjunctions of \infty-categories and homotopy adjunctions, and give a treatment of Brown representability for \infty-categories based on Heller's purely categorical formulation of the classical Brown representability theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01664,
  title  = {Adjoint functor theorems for $\infty$-categories},
  author = {Hoang Kim Nguyen and George Raptis and Christoph Schrade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01664},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v1: 21 pages; v2: updated the references, minor changes; v3: 22 pages, changed the terminology from "final" to "coinitial" functors, added three further Corollaries 4.1.5, 5.1.4 and 5.1.5, additional minor changes, accepted for publication in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society

R2 v1 2026-06-23T00:42:22.980Z