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