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Theorem 14.6. The -category of -fold complete Segal spaces is a theory of -categories.
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Proof. We will show that the triple satisfies conditions (R.1-4) of Th. 11.2. Condition (R.4) clearly holds. Condition (R.3) is the statement of Lemma 14.5.
For condition (R.2) we must show that . By Lemma 13.14 it is sufficient to show that , and as preserves colimits it is sufficient to check this on the generating classes , , and . In each case this is clear: the set maps under to equivalences in , the set is constructed as the image of under , and the image of under is a subset of .
For the final condition (R.1) we must show that . By Th. 13.13, it suffices to show that . As preserves colimits, it is sufficient to prove this for the generating class of .
As we previously mentioned, the set consists of elements in the image of . By Proposition 12.4 the remaining generators of are retracts of maps in the image of . Thus is contained in the strongly saturated class generated from .
Hence is contained in the strongly saturated class generated by . Using Lemma 14.5 one readily deduces that the generators of are mapped, via
back into .
As the composite functor preserves colimits, this implies that the saturated class generated by is contained in , whence .
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