English

A double $(\infty,1)$-categorical nerve for double categories

Algebraic Topology 2024-04-23 v5 Category Theory

Abstract

We construct a nerve from double categories into double (,1)(\infty,1)-categories and show that it gives a right Quillen and homotopically fully faithful functor between the model structure for weakly horizontally invariant double categories and the model structure on bisimplicial spaces for double (,1)(\infty,1)-categories seen as double Segal objects in spaces complete in the horizontal direction. We then restrict the nerve along a homotopical horizontal embedding of 2-categories into double categories, and show that it gives a right Quillen and homotopically fully faithful functor between Lack's model structure for 2-categories and the model structure for 2-fold complete Segal spaces. We further show that Lack's model structure is right-induced along this nerve from the model structure for 2-fold complete Segal spaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.01848,
  title  = {A double $(\infty,1)$-categorical nerve for double categories},
  author = {Lyne Moser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01848},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

53 pages; final version to appear in Annales de l'institut Fourier

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