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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…

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We give a self-contained introduction to accessible categories and how they shed light on both model- and set-theoretic questions. We survey for example recent developments on the study of presentability ranks, a notion of cardinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Sebastien Vasey

We provide a bicategorical generalization of Barr's landmark 1970 paper, in which he describes how to extend Set-monads to relations and uses this to characterize topological spaces as the relational algebras of the ultrafilter monad. With…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Quentin Aristote , Umberto Tarantino

We provide bicategorical analogs of several aspects of the notion of geometry in the sense of the theory of spectrum. We first introduce a notion of local right biadjoint, and prove it to be equivalent to a notion of bistable pseudofunctor,…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Axel Osmond

We generalise the usual notion of fibred category; first to fibred 2-categories and then to fibred bicategories. Fibred 2-categories correspond to 2-functors from a 2-category into 2-Cat. Fibred bicategories correspond to trihomomorphisms…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Mitchell Buckley

We introduce a bicategory that refines the localization of the category of dg categories with respect to quasi-equivalences and investigate its properties via formal category theory. Concretely, we first introduce the bicategory of dg…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Yuki Imamura

In this paper, we discuss the generalization of finitary $2$-representation theory of finitary $2$-categories to finitary birepresentation theory of finitary bicategories. In previous papers on the subject, the classification of simple…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Marco Mackaay , Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Vanessa Miemietz , Daniel Tubbenhauer , Xiaoting Zhang

Rigid monoidal 1-categories are ubiquitous throughout quantum algebra and low-dimensional topology. We study a generalization of this notion, namely rigid algebras in an arbitrary monoidal 2-category. Examples of rigid algebras include…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Thibault D. Décoppet

Working over an arbitrary field, we define compact semisimple 2-categories, and show that every compact semisimple 2-category is equivalent to the 2-category of separable module 1-categories over a finite semisimple tensor 1-category. Then,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Thibault D. Décoppet

In this paper we investigate the construction of bicategories of fractions originally described by D. Pronk: given any bicategory $\mathcal{C}$ together with a suitable class of morphisms $\mathbf{W}$, one can construct a bicategory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Matteo Tommasini

In this paper we redevelop the foundations of the category theory of quasi-categories (also called infinity-categories) using 2-category theory. We show that Joyal's strict 2-category of quasi-categories admits certain weak 2-limits, among…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

We study four types of (co)cartesian fibrations of $\infty$-bicategories over a given base $\mathcal{B}$, and prove that they encode the four variance flavors of $\mathcal{B}$-indexed diagrams of $\infty$-categories. We then use this…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Andrea Gagna , Yonatan Harpaz , Edoardo Lanari

The Morita context provided by an exact module category over a finite tensor category gives a two-object bicategory with duals. Right and left duals of objects in the module category are given by internal Homs and coHoms, respectively. We…

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Poly-bicategories generalise planar polycategories in the same way as bicategories generalise monoidal categories. In a poly-bicategory, the existence of enough 2-cells satisfying certain universal properties (representability) induces…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Amar Hadzihasanovic

There is a well-known correspondence between coherent theories (and their interpretations) and coherent categories (resp. functors), hence the (2,1)-category $\mathbf{Coh_{\sim}}$ (of small coherent categories, coherent functors and all…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Kristóf Kanalas

We compare the colimit and 2-colimit of strict 2-functors in the 2-category of groupoids, over a certain type of posets. These posets are of special importance, as they correspond to coverings of a topological space. The main result of this…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ilia Pirashvili

We show the existence of bilimits of 2-cofiltered diagrams of topoi, generalizing the construction of cofiltered bilimits developed in "SGA 4 Springer LNM 270 (1972)". For any given such diagram, we show that it can be represented by a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-11 Eduardo J. Dubuc , Sergio Yuhjtman

It is well known that to give an oplax functor of bicategories $\mathbf{1}\to\mathscr{C}$ is to give a comonad in $\mathscr{C}$. Here we generalize this fact, replacing the terminal bicategory by any bicategory $\mathscr{A}$ for which the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Charles Walker

We investigate the connection between left exact $\infty$-functors between finitely complete quasicategories and exact functors between fibration categories, describing a procedure to approximate flat $\infty$-functors of the former type by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-20 El Mehdi Cherradi

We show that 2-categories of the form $\mathscr{B}\mbox{-}\mathbf{Cat}$ are closed under slicing, provided that we allow $\mathscr{B}$ to range over bicategories (rather than, say, monoidal categories). That is, for any…

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