Bicategories of fractions revisited: towards small homs and canonical 2-cells

zbMATH Open1506.18025arXiv1908.01215MaRDI QIDQ5868035FDOQ5868035

Authors: Laura Scull, Dorette Pronk 

Publication date: 19 September 2022

Abstract: This paper adresses two issues in dealing with bicategories of fractions. The first is to introduce a set of conditions on a class of arrows in a bicategory which is weaker than the one given in Pronk, Etendues and stacks as bicategories of fractions, but still allows a bicalculus of fractions. These conditions allow us to invert a smaller collection of arrows so that in some cases we may obtain a bicategory of fractions with small hom-categories. We adapt the construction of the bicategory of fractions to work with the weaker conditions. The second issue is the difficulty in dealing with 2-cells, which are defined by equivalence classes. We discuss conditions under which there are canonical representatives for 2-cells, and how pasting of 2-cells can be simplified in the presence of certain pseudo pullbacks. We also discuss how both of these improvements apply in the category of orbispaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01215

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zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldslocalizationscategories of fractionsbicategories of fractionssmall homs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Localization of categories, calculus of fractions (18E35) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) 2-categories, bicategories, double categories (18N10)

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