# nLab homotopy 2-category of (∞,1)-categories

Contents

### Context

#### $(\infty,1)$-Category theory

(∞,1)-category theory

Background

Basic concepts

Universal constructions

Local presentation

Theorems

Extra stuff, structure, properties

Models

#### 2-Category theory

2-category theory

Definitions

Transfors between 2-categories

Morphisms in 2-categories

Structures in 2-categories

Limits in 2-categories

Structures on 2-categories

# Contents

## Idea

The homotopy 2-category $Ho_2\big((\infty,1)Cat\big)$ of the (∞,2)-category (∞,1)Cat of (∞,1)-categories has been argued (Riehl & Verity 13, following Joyal 08 p. 158) to provide a useful context for (∞,1)-category theory (in the spirit of John Gray‘s “formal category theory” in the 2-category Cat of plain categories).

For example, the notion of adjoint (∞,1)-functors turns out to equivalently reduce to plain adjunctions in this homotopy 2-category (Joyal 08 p. 159, Riehl & Verity 13, Sec 4, see below.

## Properties

### Adjunctions and adjoint $(\infty,1)$-functors

(Riehl & Verity 2015, Rem. 4.4.5; Riehl & Verity 2022, Prop. F.5.6; see there for more).

###### Remark

In view of its classical analog (this Prop.), the remarkable aspect of Prop. is that the homotopy 2-category of $\infty$-categories is sufficient to detect adjointness of $\infty$-functors, which would, a priori, be defined as a kind of homotopy-coherent adjointness in the full $(\infty,2)$-category $Cat_{(\infty,1)}$. For more on this reduction of homotopy-coherent adjunctions to plain adjunctions see Riehl & Verity 2016, Thm. 4.3.11, 4.4.11.

### Relation to homotopy 2-category of model categories?

One might expect (by the discussion there) that the homotopy 2-category of locally presentable (∞,1)-categories (Joyal 08 p. 348) is equivalent to the localization of the 2-category of combinatorial model categories at the Quillen equivalences, Ho(CombModCat).

At least for the homotopy $(2,1)$-categories this is proven in Pavlov 2021 and for presentable derivators it is proven in Renaudin 2006.

## References

With (∞,1)-categories modeled as quasi-categories, their homotopy 2-category was considered first in

and then developed further (in terms of ∞-cosmoi) in:

Review and further discussion in:

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