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For ∞Grpd the (∞,1)-category of ∞-groupoids, and for a (∞,1)-category (or in fact any simplicial set), an -presheaf on is an -functor
The -category of -presheaves is the (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-functors
A model for an -presheaf categories is the model structure on simplicial presheaves. See also the discussion at models for ∞-stack (∞,1)-toposes.
For a simplicially enriched category with Kan complexes as hom-objects, write and for the projective or injective, respectively, global model structure on simplicial presheaves. Write for the full sSet-enriched subcategory on fibrant-cofibrant objects, and for the homotopy coherent nerve that sends a Kan-complex enriched category to a quasi-category.
Then there is an equivalence of quasi-categories
Similarly for the injective model structure.
This is a special case of the more general statement that the model structure on functors models an (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-functors. See there for more details.
Notice that the result in particular means that any -presheaf – an “-pseudofunctor” – may be straightened or rectified to a genuine sSet-enriched functor, that respects horizontal compositions strictly.
In an ordinary category of presheaves, limits and colimits are computed objectwise, as described at limits and colimits by example. The analogous statement is true for (∞,1)-limits and colimits in an -category of -presheaves.
This is a special case of the general existence of limits and colimits in an (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-functors. See there for more details.
For a small -category, the -category admits all small limits and colimits.
See around HTT, cor. 5.1.2.4.
An ordinary category of presheaves on a small category is the free cocompletion of , the free completion under forming colimits.
The analogous result holds for -category of -presheaves.
Let be a small quasi-category and the (∞,1)-Yoneda embedding.
The identity (∞,1)-functor is the left (∞,1)-Kan extension of along itself.
This is HTT, lemma 5.1.5.3.
For a quasi-category with all small colimits, write for the full sub-quasi-category of the (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-functors on those that preserve small colimits.
Pre-composition with the Yoneda embedding induces an equivalence of quasi-categories
This is HTT, theorem 5.1.5.6.
In terms of the model given by the model structure on simplicial presheaves, this is statement made in Dugger (2001), which gives that article its name.
Let and be model categories, a plain category and
two plain functors. Say that a model-category theoretic factorization of through is
a natural weak equivalence
Let the category of such factorizations have morphisms given by natural transformations such that for all all objects the diagrams
commutes.
Notice that the (∞,1)-category presented by a model category – at least by a combinatorial model category – has all (∞,1)-categorical colimits, and that the Quillen left adjoint functor presents, via its derived functor, a left adjoint (∞,1)-functor that preserves -categorical colimits. So the notion of factorization as above is really about factorizations through colimit-preserving -functors into -categories that have all colimits.
(model category presentation of free -cocompletion)
For a small category, the projective global model structure on simplicial presheaves on is universal with respect to such factorizations of functors out of :
every functor to any model category has a factorization through as above, and the category of such factorizations is contractible.
This is Dugger (2001), theorem 1.1, where the proof appears on page 30.
To produce the factorization given the functor , first notice that the ordinary Yoneda extension would be given by the left Kan extension given by the coend formula
where the dot in the integrand is the tensoring of cocomplete category over Set. To refine this to a left Quillen functor , choose a cosimplicial resolution
of . Then set
The right adjoint of this functor is given by
For to be a Quillen adjunction, it is sufficient to check that preserves fibrations and acyclic fibrations. By definition of the projective model structure this means that for every (acyclic) fibration in we have for every object that that
is an (acyclic) fibration of simplicial sets. But this is one of the standard properties of cosimplicial [[resolutions.
Finally, to find the natural weak equivalence , write for the Yoneda embedding and notice that by Yoneda reduction it follows that for we have
(where equality signs denote isomorphisms).
By the very definition of cosimplicial resolutions, there is a natural weak equivalence . We can take this to be the component of .
The (∞,1)-Yoneda embedding generates under small colimits:
a full (∞,1)-subcategory of that contains all representables and is closed under forming -colimits is already equivalent to .
This is HTT, corollary 5.1.5.8.
The two descriptions of as the functor category and as the free cocompletion (above) both extend to contravariant and covariant functors on .
These two constructions are related.
takes values in the subcategory of presentable (∞,1)-categories and functors preserving small limits and colimits, and thus having left and right adjoints.
Let be the (∞,1)category of presentable (∞,1)-categories and functors that are left adjoints, and similarly for .
The local left adjoint to is naturally equivalent to the free cocompletion functor by a natural equivalence whose components at a small (∞,1)-category are homotopic to the identity functor on .
Consider the (∞,1)-category of possibly large (∞,1)-categories that have small colimits, and functors preserving small colimits. By HTT, 5.3.6.10, the inclusion into the full (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-categories has a left adjoint , which is characterized by the natural equivalence
given by pre-composition with the Yoneda embedding.
Let denote the local left adjoint to . Then for and , there are natural equivalences
The second equivalence holds because, for presentable , the property of being in is characterized by being accessible and preserving small limits, which can be determined pointwise.
The first and third equivalences are general properties of local left adjoints and opposite functor categories.
The last equivalence is because .
Since both constructions corepresent the same functor , the yoneda lemma ensures there is a natural equivalence .
Now consider the chain of equivalences
where the first map is inverse to composition with the Yoneda embedding, the second map is the equivalence constructed previously, and the third map is composition with the Yoneda embedding.
Be careful to note that the first equivalence has not yet been shown to be natural in .
The overall composite is essentially uniquely determined by an automorphism of of . It remains to be shown that is an identity.
When , has no nontrivial automorphisms, so is the identity.
For a functor . The naturality of the above equivalence gives a commutative square
HTT, 5.2.6.3 asserts is left adjoint to , so the left and right arrows are homotopic.
We’ve already seen the top arrow is homotopic to the identity, and so we infer . Since the generate , is thus homotopic to the identity.
Note that a natural automorphism of either functor extending would induce a natural automorphism of the identity functor on . By HTT, 5.2.9.1, the space of such automorphisms is contractible.
The following analog of the corresponding result for 1-categories of presheaves holds for -presheaves. See functors and comma categories.
(slicing commutes with passing to presheaves)
Let be a small (∞,1)-category and a diagram.
Write and for the corresponding over categories, where is the (∞,1)-Yoneda embedding.
Then we have an equivalence of (∞,1)-categories
This appears as HTT, 5.1.6.12.
A reflective (∞,1)-subcategory of an -category of -presheaves is called a presentable (∞,1)-category.
If that left adjoint (∞,1)-functor to the embedding of the reflective (∞,1)-subcategory furthermore preserves finite limits, then the subcategory is an (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-sheaves: an (∞,1)-topos
Locally presentable categories: Cocomplete possibly-large categories generated under filtered colimits by small generators under small relations. Equivalently, accessible reflective localizations of free cocompletions. Accessible categories omit the cocompleteness requirement; toposes add the requirement of a left exact localization.
Dan Dugger, Universal homotopy theories, Advances in Mathematics 164 (2001) 144-176 [arXiv:math/0007070, doi:10.1006/aima.2001.2014]
Jacob Lurie, section 5.1 in: Higher Topos Theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies 170, Princeton University Press (2009) [pup:8957]
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