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The Operadic Nerve, Relative Nerve, and the Grothendieck Construction

Category Theory 2019-09-10 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We relate the relative nerve Nf(D)\mathrm{N}_f(\mathcal{D}) of a diagram of simplicial sets f ⁣:DsSetf \colon \mathcal{D} \to \mathsf{sSet} with the Grothendieck construction GrF\mathsf{Gr} F of a simplicial functor F ⁣:DsCatF \colon \mathcal{D} \to \mathsf{sCat} in the case where f=NFf = \mathrm{N} F. We further show that any strict monoidal simplicial category C\mathcal{C} gives rise to a functor C ⁣:ΔopsCat\mathcal{C}^\bullet \colon \Delta^\mathrm{op} \to \mathsf{sCat}, and that the relative nerve of NC\mathrm{N} \mathcal{C}^\bullet is the operadic nerve N(C)\mathrm{N}^\otimes(\mathcal{C}). Finally, we show that all the above constructions commute with appropriately defined opposite functors.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08020,
  title  = {The Operadic Nerve, Relative Nerve, and the Grothendieck Construction},
  author = {Jonathan Beardsley and Liang Ze Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08020},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Improvements to exposition, citations and introduction thanks to referee suggestions