Lemma 2.1.1. Let be an adjunction between -categories. For every object there is a canonical equivalence of -categories .
2 Reduced -Operads[0M36]
In this section we develop some general theory of unital and reduced -operads. In 2.1 we establish some formal results for adjunctions and under categories. In 2.2 we specialize the results of 2.1 to prove that the inclusion of reduced -operads into pointed unital -operads admits a right adjoint, and analyze it. More precisely, given a unital -operad and an object we define a reduced -operad , which we call the reduced endomorphism operad of , and show that it satisfies a universal property. Moreover, we give an explicit description of , which will be fundamental in analyzing the truncatedness of its spaces of operations.
In 2.3 we discuss the underlying symmetric sequence of a reduced -operad and in 2.4 we use it to write an explicit formula for the free algebra over an -operad (this is essentially a reformulation of A.3.1.3). The material of the last two subsections is well known in the 1-categorical setting and will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the subject. We note that in [Hau17], Haugseng develops a theory of -operads using this approach and compares it with other models including Lurie’s -operads, though as far as we know, the precise results for algebras have not been furnished yet. Thus, we take it upon ourselves to flesh out the details of the little part of this theory that is required for our purposes.
2.1 Adjunctions and Under-categories[0M37]
We begin with some formal general observations on adjunctions and under-categories.
Proof. We denote the -category by . Let be the -component of the unit of the adjunction . By T.2.1.2.1, the projections and are left fibrations. Moreover, since is right anodyne, the map is an equivalence of -categories. By T.2.2.3.3, we can choose an inverse to that strictly commutes with the projections to . We obtain a commutative diagram of simplicial sets
There is an induced map from the upper left corner to the pullback of the outer rectangle without the upper left corner, which is another commutative diagram of simplicial sets
Since left fibrations are closed under base change (T.2.1.2.1), the vertical maps are left fibrations over . Hence, to show that the top map is an equivalence it is enough to show that the induced map on fibers is a homotopy equivalence (T.2.2.3.3). For every we get a map
which is by construction obtained by applying the functor and pre-composing with the unit . By the universal property of the unit map this is a homotopy equivalence for all and therefore the map is an equivalence of -categories. ∎
Lemma 2.1.2. Let be an adjunction of -categories and let . The induced functor
has a right adjoint . Moreover, if is fully faithful, then is also fully faithful.
Proof. Let be the coCartesian fibration associated with the functor (which is also Cartesian, since has a right adjoint). We can assume that we have a commutative diagram
such that , and is a coCartesian edge of for every (combine T.5.2.1.1 and T.5.2.1.3). It is clear from T.1.2.9.2 that for any pair of -categories with objects and there is a canonical isomorphism
Hence, we get an induced commutative diagram
The functor is a Cartesian and coCartesian fibration by the duals of T.2.4.3.1(1) and T.2.4.3.2(1). Moreover, an edge in is (co)Cartesian if and only if its projection to is (co)Cartesian by the duals of T.2.4.3.1(2) and T.2.4.3.2(2), which shows that the functor is associated with . It follows that has a right adjoint .
Assuming that is fully faithful, we will show that is fully faithful by showing that the counit of the adjunction is an equivalence. For every object, the counit map is an edge of . Since the projection is conservative, it is enough to show that the counit map of is mapped to the counit map of . Indeed, for an object , we choose a Cartesian edge and a coCartesian edge , and combine them into a commutative diagram of the form:
where and . Since is coCartesian, there exists a lift that gives an edge
that is isomorphic to the counit map of the adjunction at in the homotopy category . We can similarly construct the counit map for an object of . The assertion now follows from the above characterization of (co)Cartesian edges in . ∎
Lemma 2.1.3. Let be a functor that preserves pullbacks; then also preserves pullbacks.
Proof. Consider the commutative square
The vertical functors and the bottom horizontal functor preserve pullbacks. The right vertical functor is conservative. It follows that the top horizontal functor preserves pullbacks as well. ∎
Definition 2.1.4. Let be a functor between -categories. We say that an object is reduced if is initial in . We define to be the full subcategory of spanned by the reduced objects ( will always be clear from the context when we employ this terminology).
Proposition 2.1.5. Let be an adjunction between -categories. Assume that admits and preserves pullbacks, that admits an initial object, and that is fully faithful. For every object we consider the following pullback diagram
where the right vertical map is the unit map of and the bottom horizontal map is the image under of the essentially unique map . The top horizontal map exhibits as a co-localization of with respect to (dual to T.5.2.7.6).
Proof. First, we show that is in fact reduced. Applying to the defining diagram of and using the fact that preserves pullbacks, we see that the map is the pullback of the map , which is an equivalence (from the fact that the counit is an equivalence, the zig-zag identities and the 2-out-of-3 property). It follows that the map is an equivalence, but is an equivalence as well (since is fully faithful) and we are done.
Now, we show that is a co-localization. Let be a reduced object. We have a homotopy pullback diagram of spaces
and we note that the space of maps from a reduced object to any object in the essential image of is contractible. ∎
Corollary 2.1.6. In the setting of 2.1.5, the inclusion admits a right adjoint and the co-localization map can be taken to be the counit of the adjunction at .
2.2 Pointed Unital and Reduced -operads[0M38]
Recall from [Lur] the following definitions:
Definition 2.2.1. (A.2.3.1.1, A.2.3.4.1) An -operad is called:
- (1)
Unital if for every object of , the space of constants is contractible. We denote the full -category spanned by the unital -operads by .
- (2)
Reduced if it is unital and the underlying -category is a contractible space. We denote the full -category spanned by the reduced -operads by .
Example 2.2.2. A symmetric monoidal -category is unital if and only if the unit object is initial.
We proceed by listing the various adjunctions between the different -categories of -operads and -categories. First, recall from A.2.1.4.10 that there is an underlying -category functor and that this functor has a left adjoint , which is a fully faithful embedding. Informally, regards an -category as an -operad with empty higher (and nullary) multi-mapping spaces. On the other hand,
Lemma 2.2.3. The restriction of the forgetful functor admits a right adjoint that takes every -category to the coCartesian -operad and the unit map of the adjunction is an equivalence (ie is fully faithful).
Proof. The first claim follows from A.2.4.3.9 by passing to maximal -subgroupoids. The second claim follows from A.2.4.3.11. ∎
By A.2.3.1.9, the fully faithful embedding has a left adjoint given by tensoring with (which is a localization functor). From this follows,
Lemma 2.2.4. is the initial object of .
One source of unital symmetric monoidal -categories is
Lemma 2.2.5. Let be a unital -operad and let be a symmetric monoidal -category. The symmetric monoidal -category is also unital.
Proof. By A.3.2.4.4, the -operad is also a symmetric monoidal -category and so we only need to show that the unit object of is initial. Since is unital, the canonical map is an equivalence of -operads (by A.2.3.1.9) and therefore the forgetful functor
is an equivalence of -categories. On the other hand, by A.2.1.3.10 we have
where is the unit object and the projection is an equivalence of -categories if and only if is initial (T.1.2.12.5). ∎
Definition 2.2.6. The -category of pointed -categories is denoted by . The -category of pointed -operads is denoted by . We also denote by and the corresponding -categories of pointed unital (resp. reduced) -operads.
Remark 2.2.7. Using 2.1.1, we have an equivalence of -categories . Since is an equivalence after tensoring with , we get and therefore also . We allow ourselves to pass freely between the two points of view on (unital, reduced) pointed -operads.
Remark 2.2.8. Observe that by 2.2.4, the projection is an equivalence. Hence, the inclusion induces a functor
Moreover, it exhibits as the full subcategory of spanned by the reduced objects with respect to the underlying -category functor in the sense of 2.1.4. Thus, the two notions of “reduced -operad” coincide.
We now apply the general observations from the previous subsection to deduce the following:
Proposition 2.2.9. The inclusion
has a right adjoint . Moreover, for a pointed unital -operad the value of the right adjoint is given by the pullback
in the -category . Furthermore, the top map can be taken to be the counit of the adjunction at .
Proof. We need to verify the hypothesis of 2.1.5. The underlying -category functor is a composition of two functors . The first is a right adjoint by A.2.3.1.9 and the second is a right adjoint by A.2.1.4.10. Hence, the composition is a right adjoint as well and therefore preserves limits. Moreover, by 2.2.3, is also a left adjoint and its right adjoint is fully faithful. Hence, the functor also has a fully faithful right adjoint and we have . Finally, by 2.1.5, the inclusion admits a right adjoint with the stated description. ∎
Definition 2.2.10. A unital -operad and an object determine a pointed unital -operad . We denote and call it the reduced endomorphism -operad of in .
We can describe the reduced -operad informally as follows. For every , denote by the -tuple . The space of -ary operations is the “subspace” of of those maps that are reduced in the sense that plugging the unique constant in all arguments but one results in an identity morphism . We end this subsection by making the above description precise in a special case of a symmetric monoidal -category. For this, we first need to analyze the way multi-mapping spaces interact with limits of -operads.
For every integer , there is a functor , that takes each -operad pointed by an object to the space and a map of pointed -operads to the homotopy class of the induced map on multi-mapping spaces .
Lemma 2.2.11. For every integer , there is a limit-preserving functor , that lifts the functor .
Proof. Recall the combinatorial simplicial model category of -preoperads, whose underlying -category is (see A.2.1.4). Let be the following subcategories:
- (1)
The category is discrete and contains only the objects and .
- (2)
The category contains together with a unique non-identity morphism, which is the active map .
We endow and with the induced (trivial) marking. Unwinding the definition, for any -operad , the simplicial set is isomorphic to . Moreover, given
the fiber of the fibration (hence also the homotopy fiber)
over is homotopy equivalent to the multi-mapping space . Let and be -operads that are fibrant replacements of and , respectively. Moreover, let be a map corresponding to the inclusion . The functor , co-represented by , preserves limits. Furthermore, its value on fits by T.5.5.5.12 into a fiber sequence
which therefore identifies with for the objects determined by .
Let be the functor induced from the map corresponding to the inclusion . By T.1.2.13.8, the functor preserves limits. We define to be the composition of and , which is limit-preserving as a composition of limit preserving-functors. Unwinding the definitions, indeed lifts . ∎
Let be a symmetric monoidal -category that is unital as an -operad (ie the unit is an initial object). For every and we have a canonical map defined as follows. For , on the -th summand of the map is the tensor product of maps, where the -th one is and the rest are the unique map .
Lemma 2.2.12. Let be a symmetric monoidal -category that is unital as an -operad and that admits finite coproducts. For every and every , there is a fiber sequence
where the fiber is taken over the fold map .
Proof. By 2.2.9 we have a pullback square of pointed unital -operads
which, by 2.2.11, induces a pullback square of multi-mapping spaces
The bottom map is the map that chooses the fold map since it is induced from the map . The right vertical map is induced by pre-composition with the map , since it is induced by the adjunction
∎
2.3 Symmetric Sequences[0M39]
There is another perspective on reduced -operads provided by the notion of a symmetric sequence. Roughly speaking, a symmetric sequence is a sequence of -spaces for , where is the symmetric group on elements. From an -operad with an object one can construct a symmetric sequence of spaces by
where the action of comes from permuting the inputs. For our purposes it is convenient to use the following model:
Definition 2.3.1. Let denote the skeletal version of the category of finite sets, ie the full subcategory of spanned by the objects for each integer . We define the -category of symmetric sequences (in spaces), denoted by , to be .
Remark 2.3.2. We note two things about this definition:
- 1.
The inclusion of the full subcategory spanned by Kan fibrations is an equivalence of -categories and the straightening functor of [Lur09] induces an equivalence of -categories . Since is equivalent to the disjoint union of classifying spaces of the symmetric groups , we get
More explicitly, given a symmetric sequence , taking pullback along the map that corresponds to the object , we obtain a space that is the underlying space of the -space on the right hand-side of the above equivalence.
- 2.
In relating -operads to symmetric sequences it is useful to note that the functor , which adds a base point, induces an isomorphism of groupoids . Moreover, is isomorphic to (see the notation in T.3.1.1.1).
We next define the underlying symmetric sequence of a pointed -operad , which is given by a map , such that is the image of (see 2.2.7).
Definition 2.3.3. Given a pointed -operad , we define its underlying symmetric sequence to be
and denote it by . By analogy with -operads, we denote by the source of .
Proof. Since is a pullback of the right fibration it is itself a right fibration. The simplicial set is isomorphic to and is in particular a Kan complex. By T.2.1.3.3 the map is a Kan fibration. ∎
2.3.3 relates to the informal description at the beginning of the subsection by
Proof. This follows directly from unwinding 2.3.3. ∎
Let be a pointed -operad and let be a map of -operads. Consider as pointed by the composition . Let and . The (1-categorical) functoriality of the formula in 2.3.4 induces a map of symmetric sequences
One can verify that this yields a functor on the level of homotopy categories
It will be important in what follows to know the following:
Proposition 2.3.6. The functor is conservative.
Proof. Let be a map of reduced -operads such that is an equivalence. The map is defined by a commutative triangle
To show that is an equivalence of -operads, we need to show that is an equivalence of -categories. Since and are reduced, it is clear that is essentially surjective. To show that is fully faithful, we can use the Segal conditions to reduce this to showing that the map
is a homotopy equivalence for all . By 2.3.5, those maps are induced by the equivalence and therefore are equivalences. ∎
Remark 2.3.7. It is possible to lift to a functor of -categories, but a bit tedious to do so. We shall be content with the above weaker version as it will suffice for our applications.
2.4 Free Algebras[0M3A]
The symmetric sequence underlying a reduced -operad features in the construction of free -algebras. In what follows we briefly recall and summarize the material of A.3.1.3 specialized to the setting that is of interest to us. That is, let be a reduced -operad and let be a presentably symmetric monoidal -category. By A.3.1.3.5 the forgetful functor
admits a left adjoint (the free -algebra functor) that can be characterized as follows. By definition A.3.1.3.1, for every object we get a diagram that, loosely speaking, corresponds to a sequence of maps , such that each map lands in the connected component of and is -equivariant in the evident way. Furthermore, a map in , gives a lift of to a cone diagram
We say that exhibits as the free -algebra on , if is an operadic -colimit diagram. By A.3.1.3.2 and A.3.1.3.5, such a map exists for every and can be taken as the -component of a unit natural transformation for an adjunction .
Using our assumption on , we can reduce the operadic colimit in the above discussion to an ordinary colimit in . Consider the following commutative diagram
where is a natural transformation from to the constant diagram on that consists of active morphisms. Let be a coCartesian natural transformation that lifts . The restricted functor lands in the fiber over and is therefore a functor .
Remark 2.4.1. Informally speaking, takes each multi-object to the tensor product . There are two abstract characterizations of (which we shall not use):
- (1)
It is the left adjoint of the inclusion .
- (2)
The symmetric monoidal envelope is a left adjoint to the inclusion of symmetric monoidal -categories into -operads. The functor is the induced functor on the underlying -categories of the unit of this adjunction at the object .
By A.3.1.1.15 and A.3.1.1.16, is an operadic -colimit diagram if and only if the diagram is a colimit diagram in . In particular, we get
Lemma 2.4.2. Let be a reduced -operad and let be a presentably symmetric monoidal -category. The forgetful functor
admits a left adjoint and the associated monad acts on an object as follows:
(where we let denote the canonical enrichment of over as well).
Our next goal is to articulate the functoriality of in the -operad .
Construction 2.4.3. Given a map of reduced -operads we get a forgetful functor , such that . The unit map
has an adjunct and by applying we obtain an induced map of the associated monads (as endofunctors of ):
which is well defined up to homotopy.
Lemma 2.4.4. In the setting of Construction 2.4.3, if is an equivalence of -categories, then the map is a natural equivalence of functors.
Proof. Since all the steps in the construction are invariant, we may assume without loss of generality that is the identity functor and . In this case, the map is given by applying to the composition
where and are the unit and counit of the adjunction . This composition is homotopic to the identity by the zig-zag identities. ∎
Our last task is to show that the map from Construction 2.4.3 is induced from the map of symmetric sequences by the functoriality of the explicit formula given in 2.4.2.
Lemma 2.4.5. Given a map , the map induced by the diagram is equivalent to the canonical map (ie of the adjunct of ).
Proof. One only has to observe that the map is a map of cones on . Let be the unit map of the free-forgetful adjunction at . The adjunct map induces a map . Inspecting Construction A.3.1.3.1, it can be seen that the cone diagram is equivalent to the composition of the universal cone diagram and . ∎
From this we get
Proposition 2.4.6. Let be a map of reduced -operads and let be a presentably symmetric monoidal -category. For every object , the induced map of the associated monads
is equivalent to the canonical map on colimits that is induced by pre-composition with
Proof. We denote by the forgetful functor induced by the map . Let
be the unit map. It induces a cone diagram
and, by 2.4.5, the associated map is equivalent to the map specified by the cone diagram . On the other hand, inspecting Construction A.3.1.3.1, it can be seen that the diagram is obtained from the diagram
by pre-composition with and that exhibits as the colimit of . Thus, we get the desired equivalence. ∎
Original source: arXiv:1808.06006v3
Original source · 1808.06006v3