A model structure for cartesian 2-fibrations
Abstract
Cartesian 2-fibrations provide a way to understand indexed categories, but their classical ``straightening'' construction requires several layers of weak coherence data. This paper develops a homotopical framework that replaces much of this bookkeeping with a fully strict model. By using marked 2-categories to record the cartesian morphisms and 2-cells, we construct a model structure whose fibrant objects are precisely the cartesian 2-fibrations over a fixed 2-category π. We then show that the marked Grothendieck construction identifies these 2-fibrations, up to weak equivalence, with strict 2-functors from π into 2Cat. As an additional contribution, we construct localizations of 2-categories that simultaneously invert selected morphisms and 2-cells.
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BibTeX
@misc{martinez2026model,
title = {{A model structure for cartesian 2-fibrations}},
author = {Cesar Bardomiano Martinez and Jana K. Nickel and Maru Sarazola and Daniel Teixeira and Santiago Toro Oquendo and Paula Verdugo},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.11759},
eprint = {2609.11759},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11759},
note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A model structure for cartesian 2-fibrations
AU - Cesar Bardomiano Martinez
AU - Jana K. Nickel
AU - Maru Sarazola
AU - Daniel Teixeira
AU - Santiago Toro Oquendo
AU - Paula Verdugo
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/10
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.11759
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11759
AB - Cartesian 2-fibrations provide a way to understand indexed categories, but their classical ``straightening'' construction requires several layers of weak coherence data. This paper develops a homotopical framework that replaces much of this bookkeeping with a fully strict model. By using marked 2-categories to record the cartesian morphisms and 2-cells, we construct a model structure whose fibrant objects are precisely the cartesian 2-fibrations over a fixed 2-category π. We then show that the marked Grothendieck construction identifies these 2-fibrations, up to weak equivalence, with strict 2-functors from π into 2Cat. As an additional contribution, we construct localizations of 2-categories that simultaneously invert selected morphisms and 2-cells.
ER -