Algebraic coherators, controlled theories, and Grothendieck realizations
Abstract
We introduce a construction of algebraic coherators for Grothendieck -groupoids using the algebraic small object argument, replacing previous approaches we have used based on distributive series of monads with a more direct method for freely adjoining coherence data. Given a controlled theory, we define unreduced and reduced Grothendieck realizations, producing -Lawvere theories and extending this construction functorially to connected diagrams of controlled theories. We apply this framework to construct globular models for monoidal -groupoids, symmetric monoidal -groupoids, coherent -groups, and Picard -groupoids. We define canonical semi-model structures on categories of models over -Lawvere theories and formulate a generalized pushout conjecture that implies the existence of these semi-model structures and the Homotopy Hypothesis for Grothendieck -groupoids.
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@article{arxiv.2607.28540,
title = {Algebraic coherators, controlled theories, and Grothendieck realizations},
author = {Johnathon Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.28540},
year = {2026}
}