Elements of ?-Category Theory
The language of ∞-categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher-dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. To explain what exactly an ∞-category is requires various technical models, raising the question of how they might be compared. To overcome this, a model-independent approach is desired, so that theorems proven with any model would apply to them all. This text develops the theory of ∞-categories from first principles in a model-independent fashion using the axiomatic framework of an ∞-cosmos, the universe in which ∞-categories live as objects. An ∞-cosmos is a fertile setting for the formal category theory of ∞-categories, and in this way the foundational proofs in ∞-category theory closely resemble the classical foundations of ordinary category theory. Equipped with exercises and appendices with background material, this first introduction is meant for students and researchers who have a strong foundation in classical 1-category theory.
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Elements of ?-Category Theory
The language of ∞-categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher-dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. To explain what exactly an ∞-category is requires various technical models, raising the question of how they might be compared. To overcome this, a model-independent approach is desired, so that theorems proven with any model would apply to them all. This text develops the theory of ∞-categories from first principles in a model-independent fashion using the axiomatic framework of an ∞-cosmos, the universe in which ∞-categories live as objects. An ∞-cosmos is a fertile setting for the formal category theory of ∞-categories, and in this way the foundational proofs in ∞-category theory closely resemble the classical foundations of ordinary category theory. Equipped with exercises and appendices with background material, this first introduction is meant for students and researchers who have a strong foundation in classical 1-category theory.
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Elements of ?-Category Theory

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Overview

The language of ∞-categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher-dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. To explain what exactly an ∞-category is requires various technical models, raising the question of how they might be compared. To overcome this, a model-independent approach is desired, so that theorems proven with any model would apply to them all. This text develops the theory of ∞-categories from first principles in a model-independent fashion using the axiomatic framework of an ∞-cosmos, the universe in which ∞-categories live as objects. An ∞-cosmos is a fertile setting for the formal category theory of ∞-categories, and in this way the foundational proofs in ∞-category theory closely resemble the classical foundations of ordinary category theory. Equipped with exercises and appendices with background material, this first introduction is meant for students and researchers who have a strong foundation in classical 1-category theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108837989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/10/2022
Series: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics , #194
Pages: 770
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.77(d)

About the Author

Emily Riehl is an associate professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago and was a Benjamin Peirce and NSF postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. She is the author of Categorical Homotopy Theory (Cambridge, 2014) and Category Theory in Context (2016), and a co-author of Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 (Cambridge, 2019). She and her present co-author have published ten articles over the course of the past decade that develop the new mathematics appearing in this book.

Dominic Verity is a professor of mathematics at Macquarie University in Sydney and is a director of the Centre of Australian Category Theory. While he is a leading proponent of 'Australian-style' higher category theory, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and migrated to Australia in the early 1990s. Over the years he has pursued a career that has spanned the academic and non-academic worlds, working at times as a computer programmer, quantitative analyst, and investment banker. He has also served as the Chair of the Academic Senate of Macquarie University, the principal academic governance and policy body.

Table of Contents

Part I. Basic ∞-Category Theory: 1. ∞-Cosmoi and their homotopy 2-categories; 2. Adjunctions, limits, and colimits I; 3. Comma ∞-categories; 4. Adjunctions, limits, and colimits II; 5. Fibrations and Yoneda's lemma; 6. Exotic ∞-cosmoi; Part II. The Calculus of Modules: 7. Two-sided fibrations and modules; 8. The calculus of modules; 9. Formal category theory in a virtual equipment; Part III. Model Independence: 10. Change-of-model functors; 11. Model independence; 12. Applications of model independence.
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