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    • CommentAuthoreparejatobes
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2012
    • (edited Mar 6th 2012)

    added to Kan lift the def of absolute Kan lifts, and some more examples.

    Btw, in all of the sources I’ve read about this, Kan lifts are simply called (left, right) liftings. What do you think about renaming this to liftings? will it conflict with some other kind of “lifting”?

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2012
    • (edited Mar 6th 2012)

    Btw, in all of the sources I’ve read about this, Kan lifts are simply called (left, right) liftings. What do you think about renaming this to liftings? will it conflict with some other kind of “lifting”?

    I wouldn’t quite want to rename the entry, as “Kan lifts” crucially differ from the usual default meaning of “lift” (in homotopy thory) by allowing the 2-cell to be non-invertible.

    But what I do very much agree with is that it would be good amplify the relation to other notions of lifts. One could create a table that lists various notions of “lift” and the contexts in which they apply.

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    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeMar 6th 2012

    I think this is one of those things where once one is known to be working in a particular context, the adjective is unnecessary. So papers that are about, say, Yoneda structures, can say at the beginning “by a lifting we mean …” and then it is unambiguous for that paper. But there are enough other types of “liftings” in mathematics as a whole that the nLab page about this concept needs to distinguish itself from those other meanings somehow. But the page could helpfully remark that often the adjective is omitted.

    Which is basically to say that I agree with Urs, I guess.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthoreparejatobes
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2012

    Now that I think about it, you’re right and guess I have to disagree with myself :)

    I’ve added a remark about the Kan-omitted terminology, and a redirect from Kan lifting.

    Urs,

    It’d certainly be nice to have “lift disambiguation” page, but I don’t feel qualified to that (my knowledge of homotopy theory is pretty shallow). Out of curiosity, what you were referring to with “allowing the 2-cell to be non-invertible” ??

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2012
    • (edited Mar 7th 2012)

    what you were referring to with “allowing the 2-cell to be non-invertible” ??

    Precisely what it says in the entry: the 2-cell called ε\epsilon there is in general not invertible.

    For a lift in the sense of homotopy theory it would be invertible.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthoreparejatobes
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2012

    Precisely what it says in the entry: the 2-cell called ϵ there is in general not invertible.

    For a lift in the sense of homotopy theory it would be invertible.

    Ok I see, thanks.

    Maybe that would be expressible as a Kan lift in some locally groupoidal 2-category.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 7th 2012
    • (edited Mar 7th 2012)

    Yes. In a (2,1)-category we “have homotopy theory”.

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    • CommentAuthorvarkor
    • CommentTimeAug 23rd 2023

    Added a few references from 1978. I’m not sure what the earliest reference/usage of Kan lifts is; I’d be interested to know.

    diff, v10, current

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