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This paper addresses two issues in dealing with bicategories of fractions. The first is to introduce a set of conditions on a class of arrows in a bicategory which is weaker than the one given in [5] but still allows a bicalculus of fractions. These conditions allow us to invert a smaller collection of arrows so that in some cases we may obtain a bicategory of fractions with small hom-categories. We adapt the construction of the bicategory of fractions to work with the weaker conditions. The second issue is the difficulty in dealing with 2-cells, which are defined by equivalence classes. We discuss conditions under which there are canonical representatives for 2-cells, and how pasting of 2-cells can be simplified in the presence of certain pseudo pullbacks. We also discuss how both of these improvements apply in the category of orbispaces.
Keywords: bicategories of fractions, categories of fractions, localizations, orbifolds, small homs
Dorette Pronk; Laura Scull. Bicategories of fractions revisited: towards small homs and canonical 2-cells. Theory and applications of categories, Tome 38 (2022), pp. 913-1014. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TAC_2022_38_a23/
@article{TAC_2022_38_a23,
author = {Dorette Pronk and Laura Scull},
title = {Bicategories of fractions revisited: towards small homs and canonical 2-cells},
journal = {Theory and applications of categories},
pages = {913--1014},
year = {2022},
volume = {38},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TAC_2022_38_a23/}
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