On the equivalence of all models for $(\infty,2)$-categories
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to provide the last equivalence needed in order to identify all known models for -categories. We do this by showing that Verity's model of saturated -trivial complicial sets is equivalent to Lurie's model of -bicategories, which, in turn, has been shown to be equivalent to all other known models for -categories. A key technical input is given by identifying the notion of -bicategories with that of weak -bicategories, a step which allows us to understand Lurie's model structure in terms of Cisinski--Olschok's theory. This description of -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 -categories, we give two equivalent descriptions of it, and we show that the homotopy -category of an -bicategory retains enough information to detect thin -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