Symmetric Monoidal Bicategories and Biextensions
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| author | Aldrovandi, Ettore Gunjal, Milind |
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| contents | We study monoidal 2-categories and bicategories in terms of categorical extensions and the cohomological data they determine in appropriate cohomology theories with coefficients in Picard groupoids. In particular, we analyze the hierarchy of possible commutativity conditions in terms of progressive stabilization of these data. We also show that monoidal structures on bicategories give rise to biextensions of a pair of (abelian) groups by a Picard groupoid, and that the progressive vanishing of obstructions determined by the tower of commutative structures corresponds to appropriate symmetry conditions on these biextensions. In the fully symmetric case, which leads us fully into the stable range, we show how our computations can be expressed in terms of the cubical Q-construction underlying MacLane (co)homology. |
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| spellingShingle | Symmetric Monoidal Bicategories and Biextensions Aldrovandi, Ettore Gunjal, Milind Category Theory Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology We study monoidal 2-categories and bicategories in terms of categorical extensions and the cohomological data they determine in appropriate cohomology theories with coefficients in Picard groupoids. In particular, we analyze the hierarchy of possible commutativity conditions in terms of progressive stabilization of these data. We also show that monoidal structures on bicategories give rise to biextensions of a pair of (abelian) groups by a Picard groupoid, and that the progressive vanishing of obstructions determined by the tower of commutative structures corresponds to appropriate symmetry conditions on these biextensions. In the fully symmetric case, which leads us fully into the stable range, we show how our computations can be expressed in terms of the cubical Q-construction underlying MacLane (co)homology. |
| title | Symmetric Monoidal Bicategories and Biextensions |
| topic | Category Theory Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10530 |