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Replacing functors with enriched ones

Algebraic Topology 2025-08-20 v3 Category Theory

Abstract

We describe simple criteria under which a given functor is naturally equivalent to an enriched one. We do this for several bases of enrichment, namely (pointed) simplicial sets, (pointed) topological spaces and orthogonal spectra. We also describe a few corollaries, such as a new proof of a result of Lurie on Dwyer-Kan localizations.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11320,
  title  = {Replacing functors with enriched ones},
  author = {Thomas Blom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11320},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

49 pages. v3: updated references, added Section 5.2. v2: Simplified proof of main result of section 5 and fixed some minor details. Comments welcome!

R2 v1 2026-06-28T04:05:45.258Z