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Existence and explicit descriptions for left and right Kan extensions and lifts in bicategories of spans

Given a category C, it follows from Proposition 4.1 of Day's Brian Day, Limit spaces and closed span categories, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 420, 1974 (doi:10.1007/BFb0063100). That ...
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Second order lambda calculus as dinatural transformations in some category of CCCs

Let CART be a category where the objects are all Cartesian closed categories (henceforth shortened as CCC). Is there any way to define the arrows so that CART itself becomes ...
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Weak colimits in locally cartesian closed categories

The general adjoint functor theorem implies that a complete locally small category has a weak colimit of a diagram if and only if it has a colimit of this diagram. It seems that this is also true for ...
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When is the derived category D(A) locally cartesian closed?

Let D(A) be the derived (,1)-category of some abelian category A. For which A is D(A) locally cartesian closed? Replace D with Db or similar if appropriate. I essentially want ...
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Is there a construction capturing indexed families of adjunctions?

I'm sorry in advance if this question does not belong on this site. I am curious as to what is "really" going on when you have a family of functors indexed by elements in a base category, all of which ...
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Are lax functor categories into a cartesian closed 2-category cartesian closed?

Suppose that C is a complete closed monoidal category and I is any small category. Then the functor category Fun(I,C) is again a closed monoidal category with the pointwise tensor product $F \...
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