Homotopy coherent adjunctions and the formal theory of monads

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DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.09.011zbMATH Open1329.18020arXiv1310.8279OpenAlexW2963300453MaRDI QIDQ890142FDOQ890142


Authors: Emily Riehl, Dominic Verity Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 November 2015

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

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a cofibrant simplicial category that we call the free homotopy coherent adjunction and characterize its n-arrows using a graphical calculus that we develop here. The hom-spaces are appropriately fibrant, indeed are nerves of categories, which indicates that all of the expected coherence equations in each dimension are present. To justify our terminology, we prove that any adjunction of quasi-categories extends to a homotopy coherent adjunction and furthermore that these extensions are homotopically unique in the sense that the relevant spaces of extensions are contractible Kan complexes. We extract several simplicial functors from the free homotopy coherent adjunction and show that quasi-categories are closed under weighted limits with these weights. These weighted limits are used to define the homotopy coherent monadic adjunction associated to a homotopy coherent monad. We show that each vertex in the quasi-category of algebras for a homotopy coherent monad is a codescent object of a canonical diagram of free algebras. To conclude, we prove the quasi-categorical monadicity theorem, describing conditions under which the canonical comparison functor from a homotopy coherent adjunction to the associated monadic adjunction is an equivalence of quasi-categories. Our proofs reveal that a mild variant of Beck's argument is "all in the weights" - much of it independent of the quasi-categorical context.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8279




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