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Categorical Ambidexterity

Category Theory 2026-03-12 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We prove an ambidexterity result for \infty-categories of \infty-categories admitting a collection of colimits. This unifies and extends two known phenomena: the identification of limits and colimits of presentable \infty-categories indexed by a space, and the \infty-semiadditivity of the \infty-category of \infty-categories with π\pi-finite colimits proven by Harpaz. Our proof employs Stefanich's universal property for the higher category of iterated spans, which encodes ambidexterity phenomena in a coherent fashion.

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@article{arxiv.2411.17281,
  title  = {Categorical Ambidexterity},
  author = {Shay Ben-Moshe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17281},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: Final version. More detailed proofs, and some material on 2-functoriality of the mate equivalence. 19 page. v1: 14 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:12:56.536Z