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For questions involving one or more categorical dimensions, or involving homotopy coherent categorical structures.

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Are fibrations coreflective in a 2-category?

Sketch of an answer: Remember that $E/e$ is equivalent to $\operatorname{Span} E(e,1) $, and that the (lax-idempotent) 2-monad whose algebras are fibrations is given by composition with the span $\Phi …
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Lax universality for lax limits

Adjunctions 'up to adjointness' have been considered before. Marta Bunge (Coherent extensions and relational algebras, Trans. AMS 197, 1974) called them 'lax adjunctions', John Gray (Formal category …
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Can we exhibit the 2-category of Grothendieck fibrations as a 2 (or 3)-limit?

I'm not sure whether you're working in Cat or 2-Cat; I'll assume the latter. If B is an object of a finitely (2-)complete 2-category K, then the 2-category Fib(B) of fibrations over B is monadic over …
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Comparing discrete fibrations and their duals

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll ask it anyway, in the hope that some kindly Australian (true or honorary) is passing by and takes pity on me... In Fibrations in …
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Kan extensions of pseudofunctors

I haven't seen this written down anywhere, but I've worked it out myself in a paper I'm working on. The paper isn't quite ready, so I'll just sketch the idea here. As Zhen says, you need to generali …
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Category enriched over a monoidal 2-category

Yes, here: R. Garner, M. Shulman, Enriched categories as a free cocompletion. arxiv.
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Categorification of coends and ends

I don't think I have seen anything like this published before, but I have written up a similar definition here (see here too). One thing in your definition I would take issue with is that your 2-coen …
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Reference Request: Lax Ends

This page says that you may be able to get a copy by emailing Andrée Ehresmann. I don't know the exact answer to your question, but if you can't find a reference then it may be worth recalling that: …
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2-completeness analog of completeness theorem

Your suspicion is correct: in general, a V-category has all weighted V-limits if it has all conical V-limits and is cotensored over V (see Kelly's Basic Concepts of Enriched Category Theory, section 3 …
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Automorphisms and Bicategories

I don't see bicategories coming into this in a useful way, but I think what you have is a consequence of two more general facts: The non-uniqueness of algebraic closures is a general fact about inje …
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Is there a tricategory of bicategories and biprofunctors?

If you're still interested, I've worked this out on my personal web at nLab here, with supporting material linked to from this page.
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A question on the Grothendieck construction

The bicategory of elements of a Cat-valued functor is defined in e.g. Street's Fibrations in bicategories; it's the same as the usual one, with 2-cells as described here. Its property of classifying …
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Terminology: lax vs. oplax colimits

Well, the smarmy answer is that it's neither, because you haven't given it a universal property. What you have is what I would call an oplax (co)cone, an 'oplax' transformation $X \Rightarrow \Delta_ …
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