Categorical Ambidexterity
Category Theory
2026-03-12 v2 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We prove an ambidexterity result for -categories of -categories admitting a collection of colimits. This unifies and extends two known phenomena: the identification of limits and colimits of presentable -categories indexed by a space, and the -semiadditivity of the -category of -categories with -finite colimits proven by Harpaz. Our proof employs Stefanich's universal property for the higher category of iterated spans, which encodes ambidexterity phenomena in a coherent fashion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.17281,
title = {Categorical Ambidexterity},
author = {Shay Ben-Moshe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17281},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
v2: Final version. More detailed proofs, and some material on 2-functoriality of the mate equivalence. 19 page. v1: 14 pages