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For a small category A, we prove that the homotopy colimit functor from the category of simplicial diagrams on A to the category of simplicial sets over the nerve of A establishes a left Quillen equivalence between the projective (or Reedy)…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Gijs Heuts , Ieke Moerdijk

We explain how the notion of homotopy colimits gives rise to that of mapping spaces, even in categories which are not simplicial. We apply the technique of model approximations and use elementary properties of the category of spaces to be…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 W. Chacholski , J. Scherer

We introduce the notion of weighted limit in an arbitrary quasi-category, suitably generalizing ordinary limits in a quasi-category, and classical weighted limits in an ordinary category. This is accomplished by generalizing Joyal's…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Martina Rovelli

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 show a first rectification result for homotopy chain coalgebras over a field. On the one hand, we consider the $\infty$-category obtained by localizing differential graded coalgebras over an operad with respect to quasi-isomorphisms; on…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Dan Petersen , Victor Roca i Lucio , Sinan Yalin

We show that for an extensive $1$-category $\mathcal{E}$ with pullbacks and pullback stable coequalisers in which the forgetful functor $\mathcal{U}: \mathbf{Cat}(\mathcal{E})_1 \to \mathbf{Gph}(\mathcal{E})$ has left adjoint, the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Calum Hughes , Adrian Miranda

We prove a refinement of Quillen's Theorem A, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for a functor to be cofinal with respect to diagrams valued in a fixed $\infty$-category. We deduce this from a general duality phenomenon for…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Shai Keidar , Lior Yanovski

Consider a diagram of quasi-categories that admit and functors that preserve limits or colimits of a fixed shape. We show that any weighted limit whose weight is a projective cofibrant simplicial functor is again a quasi-category admitting…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

Let $I$ be a small category with finite dimensional nerve, and $X\colon I\to Cat$ a diagram of small categories. We show that, under a "Reedy quasi-fibrancy condition", the homotopy limit of the geometric realization of $X$ is itself the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Emanuele Dotto

Building on a previous definition of homotopy limit of model categories, we give a definition of homotopy colimit of model categories. Using the complete Segal space model for homotopy theories, we verify that this definition corresponds to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Julia E. Bergner

Thomason's Homotopy Colimit Theorem has been extended to bicategories and this extension can be adapted, through the delooping principle, to a corresponding theorem for diagrams of monoidal categories. In this version, we show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-24 A. R. Garzón , R. Pérez

We present some results on (co)limits of diagrams in $\infty$-categories, as well as those in $(n, 1)$-categories. In particular, we deduce a way to reshape colimit diagrams into simplicial ones, and a characterisations of $n$-cofinality…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Peng Du

We prove existence of equalizers in certain categories of cocomplete cocategories. This allows us to complete the proof of the fact that A-infinity functor categories arise as internal Hom-objects in the category of differential graded…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Bernhard Keller , Oleksandr Manzyuk

This text develops a homotopy theory of 2-categories analogous to Grothendieck's homotopy theory of categories developed in "Pursuing Stacks". We define the notion of "basic localizer of 2-Cat", 2-categorical generalization of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Jonathan Chiche

Given a functor $\varphi : \mathcal{C} \to \mathcal{D}$ between two small categories, there is a homotopy equivalence $\kappa: hocolim _{\mathcal{D}} N(\varphi /-) \to N\mathcal{C}$ where $N(\varphi/-)$ is the functor which sends every…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Mehmet Kirtisoglu , Ergun Yalcin

We construct a model structure on the category $\mathrm{DblCat}$ of double categories and double functors. Unlike previous model structures for double categories, it recovers the homotopy theory of 2-categories through the horizontal…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Lyne Moser , Maru Sarazola , Paula Verdugo

In this paper, we introduce a cofibrant simplicial category that we call the free homotopy coherent adjunction and characterize its n-arrows using a graphical calculus that we develop here. The hom-spaces are appropriately fibrant, indeed…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Emily Riehl , Dominic Verity

Categorification is the process of finding category-theoretic analogs of set-theoretic concepts by replacing sets with categories, functions with functors, and equations between functions by natural isomorphisms between functors, which in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-18 John C. Baez , James Dolan

The paper uses the formalism of indexed categories to recover the proof of a standard final coalgebra theorem, thus showing existence of final coalgebras for a special class of functors on categories with finite limits and colimits. As an…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benno van den Berg , Federico De Marchi

We show that, for any 2-category $C$ and 2-functor $F\colon C \to Cat$, the double category of elements $\iint_C F$ introduced by Grandis and Par\'e satisfies a version of Thomason's colimit theorem; that is, there is a weak homotopy…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Andrew Gill , Maru Sarazola