Classifying spaces for braided monoidal categories and lax diagrams of bicategories

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2010.06.027zbMATH Open1227.18004arXiv0907.0930OpenAlexW2962878293MaRDI QIDQ610685FDOQ610685

Authors: Antonio R. Garzón, Pilar Carrasco, Antonio M. Cegarra 

Publication date: 10 December 2010

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work contributes to clarifying several relationships between certain higher categorical structures and the homotopy type of their classifying spaces. Bicategories (in particular monoidal categories) have well understood simple geometric realizations, and we here deal with homotopy types represented by lax diagrams of bicategories, that is, lax functors to the tricategory of bicategories. In this paper, it is proven that, when a certain bicategorical Grothendieck construction is performed on a lax diagram of bicategories, then the classifying space of the resulting bicategory can be thought of as the homotopy colimit of the classifying spaces of the bicategories that arise from the initial input data given by the lax diagram. This result is applied to produce bicategories whose classifying space has a double loop space with the same homotopy type, up to group completion, as the underlying category of any given (non-necessarily strict) braided monoidal category. Specifically, it is proven that these double delooping spaces, for categories enriched with a braided monoidal structure, can be explicitly realized by means of certain genuine simplicial sets characteristically associated to any braided monoidal categories, which we refer to as their (Street's) geometric nerves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0930

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaceloop spacemonoidal categorybraidingnervelax colimittricategory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

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