Homotopy theory of stricter $n$-categories

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Main Author: Chanavat, Clémence
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author Chanavat, Clémence
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contents We make strict $n$-categories even stricter by requiring they satisfy higher exchange laws governed by Hadzihasanovic's theory of regular directed complexes. We study the first properties of stricter $n$-categories, in particular, we define the Gray product, and prove stability under suspension, which is non-trivial. After reviewing and briefly expanding the theory diagrammatic sets and their associated model structures for $(\infty, n)$-categories, we construct a folk model structure on stricter $n$-categories, show that the walking equivalence coincides with the stricter polygraph generated by the walking equivalence in diagrammatic sets, and finally, that the folk model structure on stricter $n$-categories is right transferred from the diagrammatic model structure along a nerve construction.
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spellingShingle Homotopy theory of stricter $n$-categories
Chanavat, Clémence
Category Theory
Algebraic Topology
18N30, 18N65, 18N40
We make strict $n$-categories even stricter by requiring they satisfy higher exchange laws governed by Hadzihasanovic's theory of regular directed complexes. We study the first properties of stricter $n$-categories, in particular, we define the Gray product, and prove stability under suspension, which is non-trivial. After reviewing and briefly expanding the theory diagrammatic sets and their associated model structures for $(\infty, n)$-categories, we construct a folk model structure on stricter $n$-categories, show that the walking equivalence coincides with the stricter polygraph generated by the walking equivalence in diagrammatic sets, and finally, that the folk model structure on stricter $n$-categories is right transferred from the diagrammatic model structure along a nerve construction.
title Homotopy theory of stricter $n$-categories
topic Category Theory
Algebraic Topology
18N30, 18N65, 18N40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26563