Stiéphen Pradal | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

A study of Kock's fat Delta

Motivated by the study of weak identity structures in higher category theory we explore the fat Delta category, a modification of the simplex category introduced by J. Kock and provide a comprehensive study via the theory of monads with arities. Specifically, by proving that the free relative semicategory monad is strongly cartesian and identifying a dense generator, the theory of monads with arities immediately gives rise to the nerve theorem. We characterise the essential image of the nerve via the Segal condition, and show that fat Delta possesses an active-inert factorisation system. Building on these results, we also establish an isomorphism between two presentations of fat Delta.

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arXiv2025

On combinatorial aspects of fat Delta

The category fat Delta, introduced by J. Kock, is a modification of the simplex category where the degeneracies behave weakly. The objective of this note is to provide tools for working with fat Delta. In particular, we identify three types of morphisms: degenerated, standard and vertical faces, and establish six relations between these classes. We then show that fat Delta is generated by these morphisms and relations.

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