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On the equivalence of all models for $(\infty,2)$-categories

Algebraic Topology 2022-03-02 v3 Category Theory

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to provide the last equivalence needed in order to identify all known models for (,2)(\infty,2)-categories. We do this by showing that Verity's model of saturated 22-trivial complicial sets is equivalent to Lurie's model of \infty-bicategories, which, in turn, has been shown to be equivalent to all other known models for (,2)(\infty,2)-categories. A key technical input is given by identifying the notion of \infty-bicategories with that of weak \infty-bicategories, a step which allows us to understand Lurie's model structure in terms of Cisinski--Olschok's theory. This description of \infty-bicategories, which may be of independent interest, is proved using tools coming from a new theory of outer (co)cartesian fibrations, further developed in a companion paper. In the last part of the paper we construct a homotopically fully faithful scaled simplicial nerve functor for 22-categories, we give two equivalent descriptions of it, and we show that the homotopy 22-category of an \infty-bicategory retains enough information to detect thin 22-simplices.

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@article{arxiv.1911.01905,
  title  = {On the equivalence of all models for $(\infty,2)$-categories},
  author = {Andrea Gagna and Yonatan Harpaz and Edoardo Lanari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.01905},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Many typos fixed, some details added and exposition clarified. To appear on the JLMS