nLab cartesian closed 2-category

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2-category theory

Limits and colimits

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The notion of cartesian closed 2-category is the analog in 2-category theory (hence the categorification) of the notion of cartesian closed category in category theory:

A cartesian closed 2-category is a 2-category, \mathcal{B}, with finite products and a cartesian closed structure: For any AA, BB in \mathcal{B}, there is an exponential object B AB^A, an evaluation 1-morphism, eval A,B:B A×ABeval_{A, B}: B^A \times A \to B, and for every XX an adjoint equivalence between (X,B A)\mathcal{B}(X, B^A) and (X×A,B)\mathcal{B}(X \times A, B).

The concept was introduced in (Makkai 96). There is no connection to the concept of cartesian bicategory.

Examples

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The following 2-categories are cartesian closed:

References

  • Michael Makkai, Avoiding the axiom of choice in general category theory, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 108(2):109 – 173, 1996.

On cartesian closed 2-categories of internal categories or internal groupoids:

Discussion of the example of generalised species:

On the example of coloured operads:

  • Nicola Gambino and André Joyal, On operads, bimodules and analytic functors, Vol. 249. No. 1184. American Mathematical Society, 2017.

Discussion of syntax for cartesian closed 2-categories in type theory:

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