\mathbf{Z}-Categories I

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Authors Paul Lessard

Publication date 1 June 2022

Abstract: This paper is the first in a series of two papers, $mathbfZ$-Categories I and $mathbfZ$-Categories II, which develop the notion of $mathbfZ$-category, the natural bi-infinite analog to strict $omega$-categories, and show that the $left(infty,1ight)$-category of spectra relates to the $left(infty,1ight)$-category of homotopy coherent $mathbfZ$-categories as the pointed groupoids. In this work we provide a $2$-categorical treatment of the combinatorial spectra of cite{Kan} and argue that this description is a simplicial avatar of the abiding notion of homotopy coherent $mathbfZ$-category. We then develop the theory of limits in the $2$-category of categories with arities of Berger, Mellies, and Weber to provide a cellular category which is to $mathbfZ$-categories as $riangle$ is to $1$-categories or $Thet{a}_n$ is to $n$-categories. In an appendix we provide a generalization of the spectrification functors of 20${}^{mathrmth}$ century stable homotopy theory in the language of category-weighted limits.

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