The symmetry actions and dualizability conjectures for higher categories

Let Cat\operatorname{Cat} be the category of categories, let (,n)Cat(\infty,n)\operatorname{Cat} denote an (,n)(\infty,n)-category of higher categories, and let Ho((,n)Cat)\operatorname{Ho}((\infty,n)\operatorname{Cat}) be its homotopy category. For nn-fold categories and dg-categories, consider the indicated enhancements of the inclusions into higher categories. Higher-categorical symmetry conjectures. The following explanations should hold: the opposite \infty-groupoid Π(Y)\Pi_{\infty}(Y) gives the mirror of YY; the generating trivial cofibration {}\ast\hookrightarrow\{\ast\leftrightarrows\ast\} should represent the Higgs boson or Higgs symmetry; the action of (Z/2)n(\mathbb{Z}/2)^n on Ho((,n)Cat)\operatorname{Ho}((\infty,n)\operatorname{Cat}) should explain nn-dualizable objects and the classification of TQFTs by fully dualizable objects; the analogous action for dg-categories should explain Tamarkin's proof of Deligne's conjecture and the action of 22-discs on Hochschild cohomology; and analogous enhancements should expose symmetries for manifolds and coefficient categories in algebraic geometry. These are speculative connections to higher-categorical formulations of mirror symmetry, TQFT, Higgs phenomena, and Deligne's conjecture, and the source gives no resolution.

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Hugo V. Bacard, “Symmetries”, arXiv:1407.2203 (2014).

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