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Building on work by Fiore-Pronk-Paoli, we construct four model structures on the category of double categories, each modeling one of the following: simplicial spaces, Segal spaces, $(\infty,1)$-categories, and $\infty$-groupoids.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Léonard Guetta , Lyne Moser

Like categories, small 2-categories have well-understood classifying spaces. In this paper, we deal with homotopy types represented by 2-diagrams of 2-categories. Our results extend to homotopy colimits of 2-functors lower categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. M. Cegarra , B. A. Heredia

We propose foundations for a synthetic theory of $(\infty,1)$-categories within homotopy type theory. We axiomatize a directed interval type, then define higher simplices from it and use them to probe the internal categorical structures of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Emily Riehl , Michael Shulman

We construct what we call a Kirby category, a monoidal category whose morphisms are smooth 4-manifolds, projecting down to another monoidal category whose morphisms are orientable 3-manifolds, the projection being induced by the boundary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Renaud Gauthier

We study (not necessarily connected) Z-graded A-infinity-algebras and their A-infinity-modules. Using the cobar and the bar construction and Quillen's homotopical algebra, we describe the localisation of the category of A-infinity-algebras…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kenji Lefèvre-Hasegawa

This note is a contribution written for the second volume of the Encyclopedia of mathematical physics. We give an informal introduction to the notions of an $(\infty,n)$-category and $(\infty,n)$-functor, discussing some of the different…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Viktoriya Ozornova , Martina Rovelli

2-Theories are a canonical way of describing categories with extra structure. 2-theory-morphisms are used when discussing how one structure can be replaced with another structure. This is central to categorical coherence theory. We place a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noson S. Yanofsky

We use type-theoretic techniques to present an algebraic theory of $\infty$-categories with strict units. Starting with a known type-theoretic presentation of fully weak $\infty$-categories, in which terms denote valid operations, we extend…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Eric Finster , David Reutter , Alex Rice , Jamie Vicary

We formulate a model-independent theory of co/cartesian morphisms and co/cartesian fibrations: that is, one which resides entirely *within the $\infty$-category of $\infty$-categories*. We prove this is suitably compatible with the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Aaron Mazel-Gee

We extend the 2-representation theory of finitary 2-categories to certain 2-categories with infinitely many objects, denoted locally finitary 2-categories, and extend the classical classification results of simple transitive…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 James Macpherson

This short introductory category theory textbook is for readers with relatively little mathematical background (e.g. the first half of an undergraduate mathematics degree). At its heart is the concept of a universal property, important…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Tom Leinster

This paper is the second in a series of two papers about generalizing Quillen's Theorem A to strict $\infty$-categories. In the first one, we presented a proof of this Theorem A of a simplicial nature, direct but somewhat ad hoc. In the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Dimitri Ara , Georges Maltsiniotis

We discuss various concepts of $\infty$-homotopies, as well as the relations between them (focussing on the Leibniz type). In particular $\infty$-$n$-homotopies appear as the $n$-simplices of the nerve of a complete Lie ${\infty}$-algebra.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-09-09 David Khudaverdyan , Norbert Poncin , Jian Qiu

We give a direct proof of the fact that Lurie's Unstraightening functor induces an equivalence between the strict $(\infty,2)$-category of indexed quasi-categories and the strict $(\infty,2)$-category of fibered quasi-categories over any…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Raffael Stenzel

This article is an introduction to the basic generalized category theory used in recent work on an extension of the theory of categories and categorical logic, including parts of topos theory. We discuss functors, equivalences, natural…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Lucius T. Schoenbaum

We show that single-variable polynomial functors over the category $\mathcal{S}$ of infinity groupoids, as defined by Gepner-Haugseng-Kock, are exactly colimits of representable copresheaves indexed by infinity groupoid. This allows us to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Kun Chen

We consider the canonical pseudodistributive law between various free limit completion pseudomonads and the free coproduct completion pseudomonad. When the class of limits includes pullbacks, we show that this consideration leads to notions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Fernando Lucatelli Nunes , Rui Prezado , Matthijs Vákár

In the first part, we further advance the study of category theory in a strong balanced factorization category C [Pisani, 2008], a finitely complete category endowed with two reciprocally stable factorization systems such that X \to 1 is in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-27 Claudio Pisani

Riehl and Verity have established that for a quasi-category $A$ that admits limits, and a homotopy coherent monad on $A$ which does not preserve limits, the Eilenberg-Moore object still admits limits; this can be interpreted as a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Joanna Ko

Inspired by Lurie's theory of quasi-unital algebras we prove an analogous result for $\infty$-categories. In particular, we show that the unital structure of an $\infty$-category can be uniquely recovered from the underlying non-unital…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Yonatan Harpaz