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Cubes are dense in $(\infty,\infty)$-categories
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- We show that the strict 1-category $\square$ of cubes -- defined to be the full subcategory of strict $\omega$-categories whose objects are the Gray tensor powers of the arrow category -- are dense in the $(\infty,1)$-category $\mathsf{Cat}_\omega$ of weak $(\infty,\infty)$-categories, in both Rezk-complete and incomplete variants. More precisely, we show that Joyal's category $\Theta$ is contained in the idempotent completion of $\square$, and in fact that the idempotent completion of $\square$ is closed under suspensions and wedge sums. This result extends a theorem of Campbell and Maehara in dimension 2. Following Campbell and Maehara's program, we will in future work apply this result to give a new construction of the Gray tensor product of weak $(\infty,n)$-categories.<br />Comment: 11 pages, comments welcome
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Category Theory
18N30
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2209.09376
- Document Type :
- Working Paper