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robin-carlier opened this issue Feb 11, 2025 · 0 comments
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robin-carlier commented Feb 11, 2025

This is a tracking issue for my series of PR formalising the fact that the simplex category is equivalent to the category
presented by generators and relations via the simplicial identities.

The proof that I adapt is mostly the one present in Kerodon. The global strategy is the following:

  • Define a category SimplexCategoryGenRel by generators and relations, with generating morphisms representing faces and degeneracies map, and relations the simplicial relations.
  • Define a functor toSimplexCategory out of this category to the usual simplex category: such a functor exists as the simplicial relations hold in the ssimplex category. This functor is essentially surjective (in fact, even bijective on objects).
  • Show that every morphism in that category admits a decomposition as a composition of degeneracies, followed by a composition of faces. In practice, this means doing some sorting using the simplicial identities.
  • Show that compositions of faces can be put in a normal form which is entirely determined by the realisation of the morphism in SimplexCategory (see Kerodon 04FQ for the precise statement).
  • Show the same for composition of degeneracies.
  • From the previous two points, obtain that for any monomorphism in SimplexCategory, there is a unique composition of faces in SimplexCategoryGenRel that lifts it. Same for epimorphisms in SimplexCategory and composition of degeneracies.
  • Using the epi-mono factorisation in SimplexCategory, conclude that toSimplexCategory is fully faithful

The formalisation is of course way more technical (since, in the end it involves a lot of sorting...), and so I split the proof over several files and pull requests, they are organized as follows.

@robin-carlier robin-carlier added enhancement New feature or request t-category-theory Category theory labels Feb 11, 2025
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…ions) are generated by faces and degeneracies (#21828)

This allows to verify the naturality of morphisms between (truncated) (co)simplicial objects by checking only the naturality relative to the face and degeneracy maps.

Note: this is mostly independent of #21749 as the latter proves a stronger result, but only for `SimplexCategory` (not `SimplexCategory.Truncated`), which is already great enough!
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