From: John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Beck-Chevalley for presheaves on groupoids?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:55:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Hk2O2-0004W8-Am@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Hi -
One of you must know the answer to this!
Suppose we have a weak pullback (= pseudo-pullback) square of
groupoids:
G -> H
| |
v v
K -> L
Suppose we take presheaves on all four. We can get a square
hom(G^{op},Set) -> hom(H^{op},Set)
^ ^
| |
hom(K^{op},Set) -> hom(L^{op},Set)
where the arrows pointing forward - in the same direction as
the original arrows - are defined using pushforward, and the arrows
pointing backward are defined using pullback.
Does this square commute up to natural isomorphism? Do you
know a reference somewhere?
Some side remarks:
1) This seems related to the "Beck-Chevalley condition".
2) It may work for categories as well as groupoids, but I happen to
need it only for groupoids.
3) I really need it with the category Vect replacing Set, so
if you know a general result for any sufficiently nice category
playing the role of Set here, that would be wonderful.
Best,
jb
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2007-05-02 17:55 John Baez [this message]
2007-05-04 20:07 RJ Wood
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