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Computing homotopy colimit of a space with free $S^1$-action

Context. I am trying to understand the argument in B.4 of Thomas Nikolaus, Peter Scholze, On topological cyclic homology, arXiv:1707.01799 (on p147).


I am still lost. But from Maxime's helpful comment and replies, let me list out my concerns - which are listed as (X),(Y),(Z).


The proof of B.4 spelt out in steps: (read the numericals for the main steps)

  1. We begin with a $1$ -category $\Lambda_\infty$ with a $B \Bbb Z $-action. We want to show $$|\Lambda_1| \simeq K(\Bbb Z, 2)$$

So I am trying to understand why this means.

Firstly, which category does this take place in? From answer below, I'd like to understand more how $$ \Lambda_\infty \in Fun(BB\Bbb Z, Cat)$$ From the construction given.

(X') So as in comments $$object \in Fun(BB\Bbb Z.Cat) \simeq Map(B\Bbb Z, Fun(C,C)^{\simeq}) \simeq Map( \Bbb Z, \Omega (Fun(C,C)^{\simeq}, id)$$

Where I have omitted the subscript category. It would be helpful elaboration what adjunction where are using to obtain such equivalence. As I am still rather unclear why we have these equivalence.


  1. We construct a new category, $\Lambda_1:= \Lambda_\infty/B\Bbb Z= \Lambda_\infty/A$.

Now I don't understand what $(-)/B\Bbb Z$ means. i.e. What kind of colimit are we taking?

(X) for each $A \in CAlg(Cat)$ some object $BA \in Cat$,
$$Mod_{A}(Cat) \simeq Fun(BA, Cat) $$

Hence $$\Lambda_1 \simeq colim _{BA} \Lambda_\infty$$


  1. We wish to compute $|N\Lambda_1|$. Then as $|\quad|$ is left adjoint.

$$ |\Lambda_1| \simeq colim_A |\Lambda_\infty| \simeq |BA| $$


The second equivalence requires the fact that

(Y) $Spc^{|BA|} \rightarrow Spc$ is conservative. Does this follow from that $Mod_{|BA|}(Spc) \rightarrow Spc$ is conservative? .

(Z) An explicit formula for $BA$. It doesn't seem clear to me why we would now have $BB\Bbb Z= K(\Bbb Z,2)$.

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