A 2-Categorical Approach To Change Of Base And Geometric Morphisms II

A.Carboni ; G.M.Kelly ; D.Verity ; R.J.Wood

Theory and applications of categories, Tome 4 (1998), pp. 82-136.

Résumé

We introduce a notion of equipment which generalizes the earlier notion of pro-arrow equipment and includes such familiar constructs as $\rel\K$, $\spn\K$, $\par\K$, and $\pro\K$ for a suitable category $\K$, along with related constructs such as the $\V$-$\pro$ arising from a suitable monoidal category $\V$. We further exhibit the equipments as the objects of a 2-category, in such a way that arbitrary functors $F:\eL ---> \K$ induce equipment arrows $\rel F:\rel\eL --->\rel\K$, $\spn F:\spn\eL ---> \spn\K$, and so on, and similarly for arbitrary monoidal functors $\V ---> \W$. The article I with the title above dealt with those equipments $\M$ having each $\M(A,B)$ only an ordered set, and contained a detailed analysis of the case $\M =\rel\K$; in the present article we allow the $\M(A,B)$ to be general categories, and illustrate our results by a detailed study of the case $\M=\spn\K$. We show in particular that $\spn$ is a locally-fully-faithful 2-functor to the 2-category of equipments, and determine its image on arrows. After analyzing the nature of adjunctions in the 2-category of equipments, we are able to give a simple characterization of those $\spn G$ which arise from a geometric morphism $G$.

Détail

Classification : 18A25.
Keywords: equipment, adjunction, span.