nLab representable 2-category

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\infty-Limits

2-Category theory

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Idea

Historically, a 2-category is representable when it admits 2-pullbacks and powers with the interval category. A 2-category has finite limits when it is representable and has a terminal object.

In particular, a 2-category with comma objects and 2-pullbacks is representable in this sense.

References

  • John Gray, The meeting of the Midwest Category Seminar in Zurich August 24–30, 1970, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 195. Springer 1971, pp. 254–255 (doi:10.1007%2FBFb0072315)

  • Ross Street, Fibrations and Yoneda’s lemma in a 2-category, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 420, 1974, pp. 104–133. [doi:10.1007/BFb0063102]

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