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Cartesian Fibrations of $(\infty,2)$-categories

Category Theory 2025-01-01 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In this article we introduce four variance flavours of cartesian 2-fibrations of \infty-bicategories with \infty-bicategorical fibres, in the framework of scaled simplicial sets. Given a map p ⁣:EBp\colon \mathcal{E} \rightarrow\mathcal{B} of \infty-bicategories, we define pp-(co)cartesian arrows and inner/outer triangles by means of lifting properties against pp. Inner/outer (co)cartesian 2-fibrations are then defined to be maps with enough (co)cartesian lifts for arrows and enough inner/outer lifts for triangles, together with a compatibility property with respect to whiskerings in the outer case. By doing so, we also recover in particular the case of \infty-bicategories fibred in \infty-categories studied in previous work. We also prove that equivalences of such 2-fibrations can be tested fiberwise. As a motivating example, we show that the domain projection d ⁣:RMap(Δ1,C)C\mathrm{d}\colon\mathrm{RMap}(\Delta^1,\mathcal{C})\rightarrow \mathcal{C} is a prototypical example of an outer cartesian 2-fibration, where RMap(X,Y)\mathrm{RMap}(X,Y) denotes the \infty-bicategory of functors, lax natural transformations and modifications. We then define inner/outer (co)cartesian 2-fibrations of categories enriched in \infty-categories, and we show that a fibration p ⁣:EBp\colon \mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{B} of such categories is a (co)cartesian inner/outer 2-fibration if and only if the corresponding scaled nerve Nsc(p) ⁣:NscENscB\mathrm{N}^{\mathrm{sc}}(p)\colon \mathrm{N}^{\mathrm{sc}}\mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathrm{N}^{\mathrm{sc}}\mathcal{B} is a fibration of this type between \infty-bicategories.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12356,
  title  = {Cartesian Fibrations of $(\infty,2)$-categories},
  author = {Andrea Gagna and Yonatan Harpaz and Edoardo Lanari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12356},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version accepted for publication. Preliminaries expanded and section 2 reorganized, with the main example now occupying section 3

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