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Enriched $\infty$-categories as marked module categories

Algebraic Topology 2025-01-15 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We prove that an enriched \infty-category is completely determined by its enriched presheaf category together with a `marking' by the representable presheaves. More precisely, for any presentably monoidal \infty-category V\mathcal{V} we construct an equivalence between the category of V\mathcal{V}-enriched \infty-categories and a certain full sub-category of the category of presentable V\mathcal{V}-module categories equipped with a functor from an \infty-groupoid. This effectively allows us to reduce many aspects of enriched \infty-category theory to the theory of presentable \infty-categories. As applications, we use Lurie's tensor product of presentable \infty-categories to construct a tensor product of enriched \infty-categories with many desirable properties -- including compatibility with colimits and appropriate monoidality of presheaf functors -- and compare it to existing tensor products in the literature. We also re-examine and provide a model-independent reformulation of the notion of univalence (or Rezk-completeness) for enriched \infty-categories. Our comparison result relies on a monadicity theorem for presentable module categories which may be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2501.07697,
  title  = {Enriched $\infty$-categories as marked module categories},
  author = {David Reutter and Markus Zetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07697},
  year   = {2025}
}

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79 pages

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