Integration of a categorical operad
Category Theory
2026-01-28 v2
Abstract
We describe a Grothendieck construction for non-symmetric operads with values in categories, and hence in groupoids and posets. The construction produces a 2-category which is operadically fibered over the category D of finite non-empty ordinals and surjections. We describe an inverse for the construction, yielding an equivalence of constant-free non-symmetric categorical operads and operadic 2-categories (split-)fibered over D, which resembles the correspondence of categorical presheaves and fibered categories. The result provides a new characterization of non-symmetric categorical operads and tools to study them.
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@article{arxiv.2506.12399,
title = {Integration of a categorical operad},
author = {Dominik Trnka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12399},
year = {2026}
}
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