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See this answerthis answer to much the same question. I would call this the 'lax' slice category, although it's not so common a notion that everyone would know what you meant, so maybe you should keep the scare quotes around 'lax'.

A propos of Martin's comment, the correct notion of slice 2-category depends on what you're doing -- you might want the strict version, with strictly commuting triangles, or the pseudo version, with invertible 2-cells (this is the strictest one that makes sense for non-strict 2-categories), or this lax version. Or you might want to restrict to (discrete) (op)fibrations as objects.

See this answer to much the same question. I would call this the 'lax' slice category, although it's not so common a notion that everyone would know what you meant, so maybe you should keep the scare quotes around 'lax'.

A propos of Martin's comment, the correct notion of slice 2-category depends on what you're doing -- you might want the strict version, with strictly commuting triangles, or the pseudo version, with invertible 2-cells (this is the strictest one that makes sense for non-strict 2-categories), or this lax version. Or you might want to restrict to (discrete) (op)fibrations as objects.

See this answer to much the same question. I would call this the 'lax' slice category, although it's not so common a notion that everyone would know what you meant, so maybe you should keep the scare quotes around 'lax'.

A propos of Martin's comment, the correct notion of slice 2-category depends on what you're doing -- you might want the strict version, with strictly commuting triangles, or the pseudo version, with invertible 2-cells (this is the strictest one that makes sense for non-strict 2-categories), or this lax version. Or you might want to restrict to (discrete) (op)fibrations as objects.

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See this answer to much the same question. I would call this the 'lax' slice category, although it's not so common a notion that everyone would know what you meant, so maybe you should keep the scare quotes around 'lax'.

A propos of Martin's comment, the correct notion of slice 2-category depends on what you're doing -- you might want the strict version, with strictly commuting triangles, or the pseudo version, with invertible 2-cells (this is the strictest one that makes sense for non-strict 2-categories), or this lax version. Or you might want to restrict to (discrete) (op)fibrations as objects.