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Stream: learning: questions

Topic: Are plain multicategories fibred over categories?


view this post on Zulip James Deikun (Jan 12 2024 at 17:30):

... by their underlying category? My instinct says yes, my attempts to prove it say maybe not.

view this post on Zulip Mike Shulman (Jan 12 2024 at 18:57):

My instinct says no...

view this post on Zulip Sridhar Ramesh (Jan 12 2024 at 20:04):

Is the question whether the "underlying category" functor from the category of multicategories to the category of categories is a Grothendieck fibration?

view this post on Zulip Mike Shulman (Jan 12 2024 at 20:11):

That's what I took it to be.

view this post on Zulip James Deikun (Jan 12 2024 at 20:28):

Yes, that was the question. The answer is "no", btw. Take the multicategory X generated by two objects A and B, a morphism f:A,BBf : A,B \to B and a "constant" g on B. The underlying category is the walking arrow. There is no Cartesian lift of the injection of the discrete category on two points into the walking arrow because there is no common factorization of the arrow from the multicategory generated by only f and the arrow from the multicategory generated by only g.

view this post on Zulip Mike Shulman (Jan 12 2024 at 20:31):

It might be an opfibration, though.