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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

A neural code on $ n $ neurons is a collection of subsets of the set $ [n]=\{1,2,\dots,n\} $. Curto et al. \cite{curto2013neural} associated a ring $\mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{C}}$ (neural ring) to a neural code $\mathcal{C}$. A special class of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Neha Gupta , Suhith K N

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

Certain results involving "higher structures" are not currently accessible to computer formalization because the prerequisite $\infty$-category theory has not been formalized. To support future work on formalizing $\infty$-category theory…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Mario Carneiro , Emily Riehl

We define a bicategory in which the 0-cells are the entwinings over variable rings. The 1-cells are triples of a bimodule and two maps of bimodules which satisfy an additional hexagon, two pentagons and two (co)unit triangles; and the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2008-11-25 Zoran Škoda

In this paper, we provide a notion of $\infty$-bicategories fibred in $\infty$-bicategories which we call 2-Cartesian fibrations. Our definition is formulated using the language of marked biscaled simplicial sets: Those are scaled…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Fernando Abellán García , Walker H. Stern

We define bicategories internal to 2-categories. When the ambient 2-category is symmetric monoidal categories, this provides a convenient framework for encoding the structures of a symmetric monoidal 3-category. This framework is well…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Christopher L. Douglas , André G. Henriques

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

By regarding the classical non abelian cohomology of groups from a 2-dimensional categorical viewpoint, we are led to a non abelian cohomology of groupoids which continues to satisfy classification, interpretation and representation…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Blanco , M. Bullejos , E. Faro

A 2-group is a "categorified" version of a group, in which the underlying set G has been replaced by a category and the multiplication map has been replaced by a functor. Various versions of this notion have already been explored; our goal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John C. Baez , Aaron D. Lauda

In this article we analyze the structure of $2$-categories of symmetric projective bimodules over a finite dimensional algebra with respect to the action of a finite abelian group. We determine under which condition the resulting…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Volodymyr Mazorchuk , Vanessa Miemietz , Xiaoting Zhang

For a 2-category 2C we associate a notion of a principal 2C-bundle. In case of the 2-category of 2-vector spaces in the sense of M.M. Kapranov and V.A. Voevodsky this gives the the 2-vector bundles of N.A. Baas, B.I. Dundas and J. Rognes.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-08-01 Nils. A. Baas , Marcel Bokstedt , Tore August Kro

The goal of this paper is to provide the last equivalence needed in order to identify all known models for $(\infty,2)$-categories. We do this by showing that Verity's model of saturated $2$-trivial complicial sets is equivalent to Lurie's…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Andrea Gagna , Yonatan Harpaz , Edoardo Lanari

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

Let $C_\bullet$ be a simplicial object in the category $Cat$ of small categories. For a field $k$, taking the Grothendieck groups of isomorphism classes of $kC_n$-modules gives rise to a cochain complex, whose cohomology, which we refer to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Markus Klemetti , Ran Levi , Henri Riihimaki , Daniel Solch

Categorical structures and their pseudomaps rarely form locally presentable 2-categories in the sense of Cat-enriched category theory. However, we show that if the categorical structure in question is sufficiently weak (such as the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 John Bourke

We prove that a (lax) bilimit of a 2-functor is characterized by the existence of a limiting contraction in the 2-category of (lax) cones over the diagram. We also investigate the notion of bifinal object and prove that a (lax) bilimit is a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Andrea Gagna , Yonatan Harpaz , Edoardo Lanari

Many monoidal-type objects are known to be classified by maps from the Catalan simplicial set $\mathbb{C}$ to various nerves of categories and higher categories. There are, for example, three different nerves of the 2-category of categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Aaron Greenspan

In this paper we study a 2-dimensional version of Quillen's homotopy category construction. Given a category $\mathscr{A}$ and a class of morphisms $\Sigma \subset \mathscr{A}$ containing the identities, we construct a 2-category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Eduardo J. Dubuc , Jaqueline Girabel

In this paper, we address the construction of homotopy bicategories of $(\infty,2)$-categories, which we take as being modeled by 2-fold Segal spaces. Our main result is the concrete construction of a functor $h_2$ from the category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Jack Romö