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Quillen cohomology of $(\infty,2)$-categories

Algebraic Topology 2018-02-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the homotopy theory of parameterized spectrum objects in the \infty-category of (,2)(\infty, 2)-categories, as well as the Quillen cohomology of an (,2)(\infty, 2)-category with coefficients in such a parameterized spectrum. More precisely, we construct an analogue of the twisted arrow category for an (,2)(\infty,2)-category C\mathbb{C}, which we call its twisted 2-cell \infty-category. We then establish an equivalence between parameterized spectrum objects over C\mathbb{C}, and diagrams of spectra indexed by the twisted 2-cell \infty-category of C\mathbb{C}. Under this equivalence, the Quillen cohomology of C\mathbb{C} with values in such a diagram of spectra is identified with the two-fold suspension of its inverse limit spectrum. As an application, we provide an alternative, obstruction-theoretic proof of the fact that adjunctions between (,1)(\infty,1)-categories are uniquely determined at the level of the homotopy (3,2)(3, 2)-category of Cat\mathrm{Cat}_{\infty}.

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@article{arxiv.1802.08046,
  title  = {Quillen cohomology of $(\infty,2)$-categories},
  author = {Yonatan Harpaz and Joost Nuiten and Matan Prasma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.08046},
  year   = {2018}
}