Joyal's cylinder conjecture

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For simplicial sets AA and BB, let Cyl(A,B)\mathbf{Cyl}(A,B) be the category of cylinders from AA to BB. Thus an object is a simplicial set XX equipped with a map X→Δ[1]X\to\Delta[1] whose fibres over 00 and 11 are AA and BB, respectively. The category has terminal object A⋆BA\star B, so every cylinder has a canonical morphism X→A⋆BX\to A\star B. A morphism in Cyl(A,B)\mathbf{Cyl}(A,B) is between fibrant cylinders when both its source and target are fibrant in Joyal's model structure. Joyal's cylinder conjecture. A cylinder X∈Cyl(A,B)X\in\mathbf{Cyl}(A,B) is fibrant if and only if the canonical morphism

X⟶A⋆BX\longrightarrow A\star B

is an inner fibration, and a morphism between fibrant cylinders in Cyl(A,B)\mathbf{Cyl}(A,B) is a fibration if and only if it is an inner fibration. This characterizes the fibrant objects and fibrations between them in the Joyal model structure on cylinders; the source describes the statement as an open question, while the abstract reports that the paper proves it.

References

Primary source

Alexander Campbell, “Joyal's cylinder conjecture”, arXiv:1911.02631 (2019).

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