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Globalizing and stabilizing global $\infty$-categories

Algebraic Topology 2024-01-05 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We consider the question of cocompleting partially presentable parametrized \infty-categories in the sense of arXiv:2307.11001. As our main result we show that in certain cases one may compute such relative cocompletions via a very explicit formula given in terms of partially lax limits. We then apply this to equivariant homotopy theory, building on the work of op. cit. and arXiv:2301.08240, to conclude that the global \infty-category of globally equivariant spectra is the relative cocompletion of the global \infty-category of equivariant spectra. Evaluating at a group GG we obtain a description of the \infty-category of GG-global spectra as a partially lax limit, extending the main result of arXiv:2206.01556 for finite groups to GG-global homotopy theory. Finally we investigate the question of stabilizing global \infty-categories by inverting the action of representation spheres, and deduce a second universal property for the global \infty-category of globally equivariant spectra, similar to that of arXiv:2302.06207.

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@article{arxiv.2401.02264,
  title  = {Globalizing and stabilizing global $\infty$-categories},
  author = {Sil Linskens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02264},
  year   = {2024}
}

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40 pages. Comments welcome!

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