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We extend the notion of the nerve of a category for a small class of crossed simplicial groups, explicitly describing them using generators and relations. We do this by first considering a generalised bar construction of a group before…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Scott Balchin

Dendroidal sets offer a formalism for the study of $\infty$-operads akin to the formalism of $\infty$-categories by means of simplicial sets. We present here an account of the current state of the theory while placing it in the context of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Ittay Weiss

We show that the classification diagram of a relative $\infty$-category arising from a relative simplicial category is equivalent to the levelwise nerve. Applications include the comparison of the diagonal of the levelwise nerve and the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Kensuke Arakawa

This paper is part of a series of papers about homotopy theory of strict $n$-categories. In the first paper of this series, we gave conditions that guarantee the existence of a Thomason model category structure on the category of strict…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Dimitri Ara , Georges Maltsiniotis

Constructing and manipulating homotopy types from categorical input data has been an important theme in algebraic topology for decades. Every category gives rise to a `classifying space', the geometric realization of the nerve. Up to weak…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Stefan Schwede

We define a naturality construction for the operations of weak omega-categories, as a meta-operation in a dependent type theory. Our construction has a geometrical motivation as a local tensor product with a directed interval, and behaves…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Thibaut Benjamin , Ioannis Markakis , Wilfred Offord , Chiara Sarti , Jamie Vicary

We give a new description of computads for weak globular $\omega$-categories by giving an explicit inductive definition of the free words. This yields a new understanding of computads, and allows a new definition of $\omega$-category that…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Christopher J. Dean , Eric Finster , Ioannis Markakis , David Reutter , Jamie Vicary

Clemens Berger showed that Weak Omega Categories of Michael Batanin can be defined as model of a certain kind of theories that he called "homogeneous theories". By using the work of Mark Weber on the Abstract Nerves for the specific case of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Camell Kachour

Both simplicial sets and simplicial spaces are used pervasively in homotopy theory as presentations of spaces, where in both cases we extract the "underlying space" by taking geometric realization. We have a good handle on the category of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Aaron Mazel-Gee

Developing an idea of Kapranov and Voevodsky, we introduce a model of weak omega-categories based on directed complexes, combinatorial presentations of pasting diagrams. We propose this as a convenient framework for higher-dimensional…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Amar Hadzihasanovic

Following ideas of Lawvere and Linton we prove that classical varieties are precisely the exact categories with a varietal generator. This means a strong generator which is abstractly finite and regularly projective. An analogous…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Jiri Adamek

It is shown that the cubical nerve of a strict omega-category is a sequence of sets with cubical face operations and distinguished subclasses of thin elements satisfying certain thin filler conditions. It is also shown that a sequence of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Steiner

We give a new construction for rigidifying a quasi-category into a simplicial category, and prove that it is weakly equivalent to the rigidification given by Lurie. Our construction comes from the use of necklaces, which are simplicial sets…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Daniel Dugger , David I. Spivak

In this paper we show that any $\infty$-operad is equivalent to the localization of a discrete $\Sigma$-free operad, working in the formalism of dendroidal sets. The key point is defining the root functor of a dendroidal set $X$, a functor…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Francesca Pratali

Given a dimension function $\omega$, we define a notion of an $\omega$-vector weighted digraph and an $\omega$-equivalence between them. Then we establish a bijection between the weakly $(\mathbb{Z}/2)^n$-equivariant homeomorphism classes…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Aslı Güçlükan İlhan , S. Kaan Gürbüzer

The most natural notion of a simplicial nerve for a (weak) bicategory was given by Duskin, who showed that a simplicial set is isomorphic to the nerve of a $(2,1)$-category (i.e. a bicategory with invertible $2$-morphisms) if and only if it…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Nathaniel Watson

Many special classes of simplicial sets, such as the nerves of categories or groupoids, the 2-Segal sets of Dyckerhoff and Kapranov, and the (discrete) decomposition spaces of G\'{a}lvez, Kock, and Tonks, are characterized by the property…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Carmen Constantin , Tobias Fritz , Paolo Perrone , Brandon Shapiro

We show that the category of N-complexes has a Str\om model structure, meaning the weak equivalences are the chain homotopy equivalences. This generalizes the analogous result for the category of chain complexes (N = 2). The trivial objects…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2012-07-31 James Gillespie

Our aim is to compare three nerve functors for strict $n$-categories: the Street nerve, the cellular nerve and the multi-simplicial nerve. We show that these three functors are equivalent in some appropriate sense. In particular, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Dimitri Ara , Georges Maltsiniotis

We define a class of morphisms between strict $\omega$-categories called discrete Conduch{\'e} $\omega$-functors that generalize discrete Conduch{\'e} functors between 1-categories and we study their properties related to polygraphs. The…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Léonard Guetta