English

All about the Grothendieck construction

Algebraic Topology 2015-10-15 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

We provide, among other things: (i) a Bousfield--Kan formula for colimits in \infty-categories (generalizing the 1-categorical formula for a colimit as a coequalizer of maps between coproducts); (ii) \infty-categorical generalizations of Barwick--Kan's Theorem Bn_n and Dwyer--Kan--Smith's Theorem Cn_n (regarding homotopy pullbacks in the Thomason model structure, which themselves vastly generalize Quillen's Theorem B); and (iii) an articulation of the simultaneous and interwoven functoriality of colimits (or dually, of limits) for natural transformations and for pullback along maps of diagram \infty-categories.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03525,
  title  = {All about the Grothendieck construction},
  author = {Aaron Mazel-Gee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03525},
  year   = {2015}
}
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