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Sphericalization and the Universal Spherical Adjunction

Category Theory 2026-05-15 v1 Algebraic Topology Representation Theory

Abstract

For every adjunction of stable \infty-categories -- or more generally, in any locally stable (,2)(\infty,2)-category -- we give a simple procedure for inverting the twist and cotwist functors associated to this adjunction. As a consequence, we obtain an explicit construction for a left and right adjoint to the inclusion of the (,2)(\infty,2)-category of spherical adjunctions of stable \infty-categories into all adjunctions. We utilize these adjoints to give a description of the walking spherical adjunction, a locally stable (,2)(\infty,2)-category which classifies spherical adjunctions, and to provide a synthetic proof of the fact that every spherical functor admits infinitely many left and right adjoints.

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@article{arxiv.2605.15037,
  title  = {Sphericalization and the Universal Spherical Adjunction},
  author = {Fernando Abellán and Jonte Gödicke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15037},
  year   = {2026}
}

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