English

2-Segal sets and the Waldhausen construction

Algebraic Topology 2017-05-04 v3 Category Theory K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

It is known by results of Dyckerhoff-Kapranov and of G\'alvez--Carrillo-Kock-Tonks that the output of the Waldhausen S.-construction has a unital 2-Segal structure. Here, we prove that a certain S.-functor defines an equivalence between the category of augmented stable double categories and the category of unital 2-Segal sets. The inverse equivalence is described explicitly by a path construction. We illustrate the equivalence for the known examples of partial monoids, cobordism categories with genus constraints and graph coalgebras.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02853,
  title  = {2-Segal sets and the Waldhausen construction},
  author = {Julia E. Bergner and Angélica M. Osorno and Viktoriya Ozornova and Martina Rovelli and Claudia I. Scheimbauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02853},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

48 pages. Final version. Will appear in Proceedings of WIT

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