Weakly unital strict groupoids model truncated spaces

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Let nn be a nonnegative integer. Consider the category of weakly unital strict nn-groupoids, its equivalences, and the category of nn-truncated spaces with weak equivalences. Let τ\tau_{} denote localization at the indicated class of morphisms. Weakly unital strict groupoid conjecture. There are functors

Πn\Pi_n

and

\Re

between weakly unital strict nn-groupoids and nn-truncated spaces, in the usual opposite directions, together with adjunction morphisms inducing an equivalence

τequivalences(weakly unital strict n-groupoids)τweak equivalences(n-truncated spaces).\tau_{\mathrm{equivalences}}(\mathrm{weakly\ unital\ strict\ }n\text{-}\mathrm{groupoids})\simeq\tau_{\mathrm{weak\ equivalences}}(n\text{-}\mathrm{truncated\ spaces}).

The source reports that Joyal and Kock proved this conjecture for n=3n=3; the general case is left unresolved there.

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Primary source

Carlos T. Simpson, “Homotopy theory of higher categories”, arXiv:1001.4071 (2010).

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