Questions tagged [infinity-categories]
Part of higher category theory that for instance in Algebraic Topology enables us to capture finer homotopic distinctions. As in say Eilenberg-Maclane spaces.
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Chromatic Spectra and Cobordism
I apologize in advance, if some of the things I've written are incorrect.
The cobordism hypothesis states that $\mathbf{Bord}^\mathrm{fr}_n$ is the free symmetric monoidal $(\infty,n)$-category with ...
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$\infty$-topos and localic $\infty$-groupoids?
It's known that every classical (Grothendieck) topos is equivalent to the topos of sheaves on a localic groupoid (a groupoid in the category of locales).
For the record, this is proved by, starting ...
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What is the status of the cobordism hypothesis?
Let $\mathscr{C}$ be a symmetric monoidal (weak) $n$-category. A framed extended TQFT of dimension $n$ with values in $\mathscr{C}$ is a symmetric monoidal functor from the framed bordism $n$-category ...
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monoidal (∞,1)-categories from weakly monoidal model categories
In Higher Algebra section 4.1.7, Jacob Lurie proves that the underlying $(\infty,1)$-category of a monoidal model category is a monoidal $(\infty,1)$-category.
Dominic Verity and Yuki Maehara have (...
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Homotopic version of Freyd's AT category observations
Freyd was the first to formalize a striking comparison between abelian categories and topoi, showing that their exactness properties can be jointly captured by the axioms of AT categories, and the ...
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Constructible derived category and fundamental category
Introduction (may be skipped)
Given a nice topological space $X$, the category of local systems (say over a field $k$) on it is equivalent to the category of representations of its fundamental ...
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Dennis trace map for stable $\infty$-category, naively
I'm trying to get more intiution about higher K-theory, Hochschild homology and the trace map between by thinking about these objects from an informal $\infty$-categorical perspective, instead of ...
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Generalized $\infty$-operads are an analog of ??? in $\infty$-category theory
In Section 2.3.2 of Higher Algebra, Lurie introduces the notion of generalized $\infty$-operads. This is a functor $p:\mathcal{O}^\otimes \to \mathcal{F}\mathrm{in}_\ast$ of $\infty$-categories, where ...
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Isbell duality for simplicial sets
$\newcommand{\IsbellSpec}{\mathsf{Spec}}\newcommand{\IsbellO}{\mathsf{O}}\newcommand{\Nat}{\mathrm{Nat}}$Isbell duality sets up an adjunction (see here for a short abstract summary)
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Higher Algebra, Theorem 2.4.3.18 and Remark 2.4.3.6
In his book Higher Algebra, Lurie introduces the notion of generalized $\infty$-operads ($\S$2.3.2). Roughly speaking, a generalized $\infty$-operad is a "family" of $\infty$-operads ...
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Categorification of "Every domain embeds into a field"?
In the category of commutative rings, every domain embeds into a field. Is this true in the category of presentably symmetric monoidal stable $\infty$-categories? Here's what I mean by that.
Let $...
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Looking for an invariant similar to algebraic K-theory
I'm wondering if there is an invariant, similar to algebraic K-theory, topological hochshild homologic, topological cyclic homology etc... that has the following properties:
a) It attach to each small ...
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A tensor product for triangulated categories?
Many triangulated categories which show up in mathematics, such as derived categories of various sorts, arise as the homotopy category of a stable $\infty$-category.
Stable $\infty$-categories give ...
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Other examples of the algebro-geometric Ran space
First off, sorry if this seems vague.
Let's recall some definition. Let $X$ be a curve over a field $k$ and $G$ an algebraic group, then the space $Ran_G(X)$ as defined by Lurie in his Tamagawa ...
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What is the infinity category of subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^n$?
Let $\mathcal{J}$ denote the topological category of finite-dimensional real inner product spaces with linear isometric embeddings. The space of morphisms $\mathcal{J}(\mathbb{R}^k, \mathbb{R}^n)$ is ...
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Open conjectures and expected applications of homotopy theory to arithmetics
I hope this question is not too broad to be asked here; if it is, please feel free to close the question.
I'm currently near the end of my masters studies and subsequently search for a particular ...
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Comparing derived categories of quasi-coherent sheaves in the lisse-etale and the big etale toplogy on an algebraic stack
I am trying to understand the proof of Proposition 1.4.2. in "A study of derived algebraic geometry Volume 1" by Gaitsgory-Rozenblyum. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~gaitsgde/GL/QCohBook.pdf, page 8.
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Examples and non-examples of Tannakian $\infty$-categories
My definition of a Tannakian $\infty$-category is taken from this paper ("Tannaka duality over ring spectra" by James Wallbridge).
(p. $53$, definition $7.9$) Let $R$ be an $E_{\infty}$-...
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Floer cohomology from mapping spaces of $\infty$ categories
There's a meta-observation (of Urs Schreiber, who attributes it to Ken Brown and Lurie) that 'cohomology theories come from mapping spaces of $(\infty,1)$ categories'. This is described in detail at ...
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When is Fun(X,C) comonadic over C with respect to the colimit functor?
Because I'm primarily interested in this question from the point of view of $\infty$-categories (in this case, modeled by quasicategories), I'll ask this question using that terminology. In particular,...
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Colimits of algebras for $\infty$-Monad
I would like to know in anyone has developed method for constructing colimits in the category of algebra for a monad in the $(\infty,1)$-categorical framework, using transfinite constructions.
I have ...
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A model category for descent?
Recall that an $(\infty,1)$-category $C$ is said to have descent if for any small diagram $X:I\to M$ with (homotopy) colimit $\overline{X}$, the adjunction between $C/\overline{X}$ and "equifibered" $...
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What is a stable $(n,1)$-category?
My question in its simplest form is whether we have any understanding of stable $(n,1)$-categories, by analogy with stable $(\infty,1)$-categories and abelian categories (the latter being like "stable ...
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What is the exact definition of the $\infty$-topos of sheaves on a localic $\infty$-groupoid?
The category $\mathrm{Locale}$ is equivalent to the category $0\text{-}\mathrm{Topos}$ .
The 2-category $\mathrm{LocalicGroupoid}$ (with suitable localization) is equivalent to the 2-category $1\text{...
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Applications of the simplex $2$-category and its higher dimensional cousins
The simplex category $\Delta$ has a $2$-category refinement $\Delta_2$ given by the full sub-$2$-category of the $2$-category $\mathsf{Cat}$ spanned by the ordinal categories $𝟘$, $𝟙$, $𝟚:=𝟙\star𝟘...
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Symmetric monoidal structure(s) on the $\infty$-category of dg-categories
Let $k$ be a commutative ring with $1$, and let $\mathsf{dgCat}_k$ be the category of $k$-linear dg-categories, as defined in [1, Section 2]. We may equip $\mathsf{dgCat}_k$ with the Morita model ...
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Testing for equivalences of $\infty$-categories on strictifications?
It is in general not too hard to show that maps between finite $CW$-complexes/finite simplicial sets are homotopy equivalences.
Question : Can we do something similar for:
quasi-categorical ...
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Homotopy pullbacks of simplicial sets; Joyal vs Kan-Quillen model structures
I am interested in comparison of homotopy pullback squares in the category of simplicial sets with respect to Joyal' model structure and Quillen's one.
Suppose we are given a (strict) pullback square
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Group objects in $\infty$-categories
A groupoid object in an $(\infty,1)$ category $\mathcal{C}$ is a functor $G:N(\Delta)^{op} \to \mathcal{C}$ such that for any partition $[n]=S \cup S'$ intersecting in $s$, the object $G([n]$ is the ...
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Bar construction and the $\infty$-categorical Barr-Beck theorem
I am studying the proof of the $\infty$-categorical version of the Barr-Beck theorem in Lurie's Higher Algebra, but there is a step of the proof that is puzzling me. In Lemma 4.7.3.13, a simplicial ...
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Categorification of definitions in the context of the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves
Let $SpecA=X$ be an affine noetherian scheme. Let $QCoh(X)$ denote the derived (stable $\infty$-)category of quasi-coherent sheaves on $X$. There are the following special full subcategories spanned ...
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When are homotopy colimits in $\mathrm{Cat}$ colimits in $\mathcal{C}\mathrm{at}_\infty$?
Letting $\mathrm{Cat}$ denote the category of (small) categories and $\mathrm{Set}_\Delta$ the category of simplicial sets, it is well known that the nerve $N:\mathrm{Cat} \to \mathrm{Set}_\Delta$ ...
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Does simplicial localization with a 3-arrow calculus commute with functor categories?
Let $(C,W)$ be a category with a class of weak equivalences, and $D$ a small category. Then I can form the diagram category $(C^D,W^D)$ with objectwise weak equivalences, and its simplicial ...
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Understanding the concept of homotopy fixed points
I apologize in advance if this question is too basic for this site, I tried to search online and through the literature for a few days with no success already.
I am trying to understand the concept of ...
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Descent vs effective descent for morphisms of ring spectra
Define a homomorphism $\varphi : A \to B$ of commutative discrete rings or commutative ring spectra to be a (effective) descent morphism if the comparison functor from $\mathsf{Mod}_A$ to the category ...
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Classifying spaces of monoidal categories and deloopings
$\newcommand{\abs}[1]{|#1|}$The classifying space $\abs{\mathcal{C}}$ of a category $\mathcal{C}$ is the geometric realisation $\abs{\mathrm{N}_{\bullet}(\mathcal{C})}$ of its nerve $\mathrm{N}_\...
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Relationship between different definitions of the Hochschild homology
Throughout the literature, one can find many definitions of the Hochschild homology of various objects. However, the precise relationship between these definitions is not always so clear, at least to ...
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Does any 'logical' theory have a bounded ∞-pretopos as syntactic category?
Stone duality may be understood as providing a duality between syntax and semantics for propositional logic, so that a theory may be recovered from its models. In order to do likewise for first-order ...
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Is there any survey of dg-categories from the $\infty$-category point of view?
I was reading this question on dg-categories and a comment by David Ben-Zvi says "An excellent pre-$\infty$-categorical overview is Keller's ICM address https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601185".
I was ...
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When does p-profinite completion commutes with maps from a $p$-finite space?
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Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the ($\infty$-)category of spaces and $\mathcal{S}_{p-\text{finite}}$ the full subcategory spanned by the $p$-finite spaces (that is, the spaces with finitely many ...
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A completeness criterion for $\infty$-categories
We all know that for ordinary categories $\mathscr{C}, \mathscr{D}$ (with $\mathscr{C}$ small) the limit of a functor $F:\mathscr{C} \to \mathscr{D}$, if it exists, can be constructed by using ...
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Picard-Brauer exact sequence for infinity categories
This question may be very naive, or the answer may be well-known. In any case, a good amount of googling did not bring up anything useful (maybe I'm using the wrong words?).
If $f:A\to B$ is a ...
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Non-strictly unital functors of infinity categories?
One potential limitation of the quasicategory model of $(\infty,1)$-categories seems to be that the identity morphisms are "a part of the structure" of each quasicategory, and that morphisms ...
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Is there a synthetic approach to (symmetric) monoidal infinity-categories?
Recent work of Riehl and Verity (e.g. the book "Elements of $\infty$-category theory") has established a "synthetic" / model-independent approach to the study of $\infty$-...
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Is strictness decidable?
Let $\mathcal C$ be an $\infty$-category. We can ask:
Q: Is $\mathcal C$ a 1-category?
That is, are the hom-spaces of $\mathcal C$ essentially discrete?
Roughly, my question is:
Proto-Question: Is Q ...
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Homotopy theory of differential objects
In Kashiwara and Schapira's wonderful book Categories and Sheaves, they define a category with translation to be a category $\mathsf{C}$ equipped with an auto-equivalence $S: \mathsf{C} \to \mathsf{C}$...
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(Co)cartesian fibrations and left Kan extensions
Let $p: \mathscr{C}\to\mathscr{D}$ be a functor of (small) $\infty$-categories. Let $\mathscr{E}$ be a cocomplete $\infty$-category. Assume that $\mathscr{C}, \mathscr{D}, \mathscr{E}$ admit finite ...
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The space of all constructions of $(\infty, 1)$-categories
In the paper How to glue derived categories the following is written about $(\infty, 1)$-categories:
This idea was discussed quite a lot in the early 1990-ies, and probably before that,
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Duality of Hopf algebras and duality of spectra
Let $S$ be the sphere spectrum, and for $X$ a topological space, let $S(X)$ be the mapping spectrum from the free loop spectrum on $X$ to the sphere spectrum. This is an $E_\infty$ ring spectrum (also ...
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Is there an $\infty$-topos of monochromatic spaces?
Fix (a prime $p$ and) a chromatic height $h$. Recall that the Bousfield-Kuhn functor $\Phi_h: \mathcal M_h^f \to Sp_{T(h)}$ is monadic, where $\mathcal M_h^f \subseteq Top_\ast$ is a certain ...
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