Nerves and classifying spaces for bicategories

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.219zbMATH Open1183.18005arXiv0903.5058OpenAlexW3104477872MaRDI QIDQ848138FDOQ848138

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

Publication date: 23 February 2010

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship amongst the various simplicial and pseudo-simplicial objects characteristically associated to any bicategory C. It proves the fact that the geometric realizations of all of these possible candidate `nerves of C' are homotopy equivalent. Any one of these realizations could therefore be taken as the classifying space BC of the bicategory. Its other major result proves a direct extension of Thomason's `Homotopy Colimit Theorem' to bicategories: When the homotopy colimit construction is carried out on a diagram of spaces obtained by applying the classifying space functor to a diagram of bicategories, the resulting space has the homotopy type of a certain bicategory, called the `Grothendieck construction on the diagram'. Our results provide coherence for all reasonable extensions to bicategories of Quillen's definition of the `classifying space' of a category as the geometric realization of the category's Grothendieck nerve, and they are applied to monoidal (tensor) categories through the elemental `delooping' construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5058

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacehomotopy typebicategorycategorymonoidal categorysimplicial setnervepseudosimplicial category

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological categories, foundations of homotopy theory (55U40) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50)

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