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$\infty$-operads as symmetric monoidal $\infty$-categories

Category Theory 2022-09-13 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We use Lurie's symmetric monoidal envelope functor to give two new descriptions of \infty-operads: as certain symmetric monoidal \infty-categories whose underlying symmetric monoidal \infty-groupoids are free, and as certain symmetric monoidal \infty-categories equipped with a symmetric monoidal functor to finite sets (with disjoint union as tensor product). The latter leads to a third description of \infty-operads, as a localization of a presheaf \infty-category, and we use this to give a simple proof of the equivalence between Lurie's and Barwick's models for \infty-operads.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2106.12975,
  title  = {$\infty$-operads as symmetric monoidal $\infty$-categories},
  author = {Rune Haugseng and Joachim Kock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12975},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages. v2: Accepted version, only minor changes

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