Comparison of the n-categorical nerves

DOI10.2140/AGT.2022.22.2867arXiv2010.00266MaRDI QIDQ6350293FDOQ6350293

Publication date: 1 October 2020

Abstract: Our aim is to compare three nerve functors for strict

n

-categories: the Street nerve, the cellular nerve and the multi-simplicial nerve. We show that these three functors are equivalent in some appropriate sense. In particular, the classes of

n

-categorical weak equivalences that they define coincide: they are the Thomason equivalences. We give two applications of this result: the first one states that a Dyer-Kan-type equivalence for Thomason equivalences is a Thomason equivalence; the second one, fundamental, is the stability of the class of Thomason equivalences under the dualities of the category of strict

n

-categories.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Localization of categories, calculus of fractions (18E35) Homotopical algebra, Quillen model categories, derivators (18N40) Simplicial sets, simplicial objects (18N50) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35) Homotopy equivalences in algebraic topology (55P10) Strict omega-categories, computads, polygraphs (18N30)

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