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• CommentRowNumber1.
• CommentAuthorHurkyl
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020

Characterized full faithfulness in terms of a pullback

• CommentRowNumber2.
• CommentAuthorHurkyl
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020

(I have a gap in my argument so I’ve retracted it for now)

• CommentRowNumber3.
• CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020
• (edited May 28th 2020)

What was the argument you were trying to give? Maybe it can be repaired, and anyhow it would be interesting to know how you were thinking about this!

• CommentRowNumber4.
• CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020
• (edited Jun 3rd 2020)

One can probably for example say: a functor $f: A \rightarrow B$ is fully faithful if, for any arrow $g$ of $B$, viewed as a functor $I \rightarrow B$, where $I$ is the interval category, the pullback of $f$ and $g$ can be taken to be $I$ with the identity arrow as the projection to $I$ if the pullback of $f$ and the restriction of $g$ to the inclusion of $1 \sqcup 1$ into $I$ is non-empty (it is necessarily empty otherwise). Is that the kind of thing you had in mind?

• CommentRowNumber5.
• CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020
• (edited May 28th 2020)

One can probably also say: the pullback of the functor $B^I \rightarrow B^{1 \sqcup 1}$ and the functor $f^{1 \sqcup 1}: A^{1 \sqcup 1} \rightarrow B^{1 \sqcup 1}$ can be taken to be $A^I$ with the obvious projections.

• CommentRowNumber6.
• CommentAuthorRichard Williamson
• CommentTimeMay 28th 2020
• (edited May 28th 2020)

As a random aside, the difference between #4 and #5 is a quite typical example of a translation of a weaker (foundationally, or alternatively with regard to the structure required of the ’doctrine’ one is working in ), in particular predicative, formulation into a concise but impredicative one!

• CommentRowNumber7.
• CommentAuthorHurkyl
• CommentTimeMay 29th 2020
• (edited May 29th 2020)

Yes, #5 was the characterization I was thinking of; that $A^I$ is the pullback (in the $(\infty,1)$ category of $\infty$-categories) of $A \times A \to B \times B \leftarrow B^I$ in the manner you describe. Or maybe that you need to restrict to the core first. It’s clear that this implies full faithfulness, but I’ve confused myself over the details for the reverse implication and haven’t gotten around to looking at it again.

1. Ah, I hadn’t actually noticed that you were asking about $(\infty,1)$-functors! We should add something about this in the ordinary category theory setting to full and faithful functor too.

• CommentRowNumber9.
• CommentAuthorHurkyl
• CommentTimeMay 29th 2020

I found a reference for the statement, so I’ll cite Cisinski for it.

• CommentRowNumber10.
• CommentAuthorHurkyl
• CommentTimeJun 1st 2020

Improved the list of characterizations of full faithfulness.