Enriched $\infty$-categories as marked module categories
Abstract
We prove that an enriched -category is completely determined by its enriched presheaf category together with a `marking' by the representable presheaves. More precisely, for any presentably monoidal -category we construct an equivalence between the category of -enriched -categories and a certain full sub-category of the category of presentable -module categories equipped with a functor from an -groupoid. This effectively allows us to reduce many aspects of enriched -category theory to the theory of presentable -categories. As applications, we use Lurie's tensor product of presentable -categories to construct a tensor product of enriched -categories with many desirable properties -- including compatibility with colimits and appropriate monoidality of presheaf functors -- and compare it to existing tensor products in the literature. We also re-examine and provide a model-independent reformulation of the notion of univalence (or Rezk-completeness) for enriched -categories. Our comparison result relies on a monadicity theorem for presentable module categories which may be of independent interest.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.07697,
title = {Enriched $\infty$-categories as marked module categories},
author = {David Reutter and Markus Zetto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07697},
year = {2025}
}
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79 pages