English

Culf maps and edgewise subdivision

Algebraic Topology 2026-03-13 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

We show that, for any simplicial space XX, the \infty-category of culf maps over XX is equivalent to the \infty-category of right fibrations over sd(X)\operatorname{sd}(X), the edgewise subdivision of XX. (When XX is a Rezk complete Segal or 2-Segal space, sd(X)\operatorname{sd}(X) is the twisted arrow category of XX.) We give two proofs of independent interest; one exploiting comprehensive factorization and the natural transformation from the edgewise subdivision to the nerve of the category of elements, and another exploiting a new factorization system of ambifinal and culf maps, together with the right adjoint to edgewise subdivision. Using this main theorem, we show that the \infty-category of decomposition spaces and culf maps is locally an \infty-topos.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11191,
  title  = {Culf maps and edgewise subdivision},
  author = {Philip Hackney and Joachim Kock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11191},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Appendix coauthored with Jan Steinebrunner. Version 2: 55 pages. Improvements following referee report. To appear in Trans AMS

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