The biequivalence and infinity-properad conjecture for labelled cospan categories

A labelled cospan category is a symmetric monoidal category equipped with a symmetric monoidal functor to the category of cospans satisfying the pullback condition specified in the source. A labelled infinity-cospan category is a symmetric monoidal \infty-category C\mathcal{C} equipped with a symmetric monoidal functor π:CCsp\pi:\mathcal{C}\to\mathbb{C}\mathrm{sp} satisfying the analogous pullback condition. Let Cat\mathrm{Cat}_\infty^\otimes be the \infty-category of symmetric monoidal \infty-categories, and let P\mathcal{P} be the full subcategory of (Cat)/Csp(\mathrm{Cat}_\infty^\otimes)_{/\mathbb{C}\mathrm{sp}} on such labelled infinity-cospan categories. Labelled cospan–properad conjecture. There is a biequivalence between the 22-category of labelled cospan categories and the 22-category of coloured properads, and P\mathcal{P} is equivalent to the \infty-category of \infty-properads. The conjecture relates labelled cospan categories and labelled infinity-categories of cospans to the established notions of coloured and infinity-properads; the source suggests it as a proposed comparison, with no resolution stated.

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Jan Steinebrunner, “The surface category and tropical curves”, arXiv:2111.14757 (2026).

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