nLab fibrant double category

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Idea

For large classes of examples of bicategories the 1-morphisms naturally are of one of two different types:

  1. special morphisms that may be taken to compose strictly among themselves;

  2. more general morphisms that behave like bimodules.

The archetypical example is indeed the bicategory whose objects are algebras, and whose 1-morphisms are bimodules between these: every ordinary algebra homomorphism f:A→Bf : A \to B induces an AA-BB-bimodule fB{}_f B and this operation induces a 2-functor from the category of algebras and algebra homomorphisms into the bicategory of algebras and bimodules, which is the identity on objects.

For usefully working with bicategories of this kind, it is typically of crucial importance to remember this extra information. A fibrant double category is a way to achieve this.

A fibrant double category is essentially the same as a proarrow equipment on a bicategory. See there for more.

Fibrant double categories have also been called framed bicategories (Shulman β€˜08) and gregarious double categories (DPP10.

Definition

This comes directly from Shulman β€˜08:

Definition

A double category 𝔻=𝔻 0←L𝔻 1β†’R𝔻 0\mathbb{D} = \mathbb{D}_0 \xleftarrow{L} \mathbb{D}_1 \xrightarrow{R} \mathbb{D}_0 is fibrant if it satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions:

  1. (L,R):𝔻 1→𝔻 0×𝔻 0(L,R): \mathbb{D}_1 \to \mathbb{D}_0 \times \mathbb{D}_0 is a fibration,
  2. (L,R):𝔻 1→𝔻 0×𝔻 0(L,R): \mathbb{D}_1 \to \mathbb{D}_0 \times \mathbb{D}_0 is an opfibration
  3. 𝔻\mathbb{D} admits all companions and conjoints
  4. 𝔻\mathbb{D} admits all restrictions
  5. 𝔻\mathbb{D} admits all extensions

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