Cartesianity of exponentiation in infinity-categories

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Let \Space\Space be the category of spaces and let \Cat\Cat be the category of infinity-categories. For an infinity-category CC, write C:\Space\Cat- \to C: \Space \to \Cat for the functor sending a space to its corresponding functor category into CC. A functor is cartesian when it admits cartesian lifts of morphisms. If f:ABf: A \to B is a morphism in \Space\Space and (B,ϕ)(B,\phi) is an object of the relevant total category, its proposed cartesian lift is (A,ϕf)(A,\phi \circ f).

Cartesianity conjecture. If CC is an infinity-category, then

C:\Space\Cat- \to C: \Space \to \Cat

is cartesian, where the cartesian lift of f:ABf: A \to B to (B,ϕ)(B,\phi) is (A,ϕf)(A, \phi \circ f).

This conjecture is introduced to support the construction of categories involving mixed-variance applications of the simplicial homotopy principle. The source says that proving it would require showing that cocartesian and cartesian functors are exponentiable; no resolution is given.

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Primary source

Daniel Gratzer, Jonathan Weinberger and Ulrik Buchholtz, “The -category of -categories in simplicial type theory”, arXiv:2602.02218 (2026).

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