Indexed profunctors over 2-categories
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Adjoint functors (universal constructions, reflective subcategories, Kan extensions, etc.) (18A40) Limits and colimits (products, sums, directed limits, pushouts, fiber products, equalizers, kernels, ends and coends, etc.) (18A30) 2-categories, bicategories, double categories (18N10) Profunctors (= correspondences, distributors, modules) (18D60)
Abstract: We define the notion of an indexed profunctor over a 2-category, and use it to develop an abstract theory of limits. The theory subsumes (conical) limits, weighted limits, ends and Kan extensions. Results include an abstract version of the theorem that right adjoint functors preserve limits, and an abstract account of the phenomenon that the comparison arrow implicated in the preservation of a limit by a functor is natural in any functorial variable the functor happens to depend on. These results make an extensive use of the data and axioms of an indexed profunctor over a 2-category.
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