Barr–Beck–Lurie in families

Arun Soor

May 21, 2025

1 Barr–Beck–Lurie in families

In this section we present a generalization of the result of [GHK22, Proposition 4.4.5] which is adapted to our setting.

Proposition 1.1. Given a diagram

 𝒞             𝒟

Upr       ℬ

in Cat∞ such that:

(i)

p and r are coCartesian fibrations and U preserves coCartesian edges;

(ii)

U has a left adjoint F : 𝒟 → 𝒞 such that pF ≃ r;

(iii)

The adjunction F ⊣ U restricts in each fiber to an adjunction Fb ⊣ Ub. For all b ∈ ℬ, the functor Ub is conservative, and 𝒞b admits colimits of Ub-split simplicial objects, which Ub preserves.

(iv)

For any edge        ′
e : b → b in ℬ, the coCartesian covariant transport e! : 𝒞b → 𝒞b′ preserves geometric realizations of Ub-split simplicial objects.

Then, the adjunction F ⊣ U is monadic.

Remark 1.2. In view of the Barr–Beck–Lurie theorem, condition (iii) in Proposition 1.1 is equivalent to:

(iii)′

The adjunction F ⊣ U restricts in each fiber to a monadic adjunction Fb ⊣ Ub.

Proof of Proposition 1.1. We verify the conditions of the Barr–Beck–Lurie theorem [Lur17, Theorem 4.7.3.5].

First we show that U is conservative. We can argue in exactly the same way as [GHK22, Proposition 4.4.5]. Suppose that        ′
f : c → c is a morphism in 𝒞 such that Uf is an equivalence in 𝒟. Then e := qUf ≃ pf is an equivalence in ℬ. One can factor f as   φ     f′
c −→ e!c−→ c′ where φ is a coCartesian lift of e and f′ is a morphism in the fiber 𝒞b′ above b′ := p(c′). Since φ is coCartesian lift of an equivalence, it is an equivalence. Because of the fiberwise monadicity assumption (iii), f′ is an equivalence. Therefore f is an equivalence and U is conservative.

Now we will show that 𝒞 admits and U preserves colimits of U-split simplicial objects. Let q : Δop → 𝒞 be a U-split simplicial object, so that U q extends to a diagram U~q : Δop−∞ → 𝒟. Let f : Δop−∞ → ℬ be the underlying diagram in ℬ. There is a morphism

Δ1 × Δop →  Δop
      −∞     −∞
(1)

which is the identity on {0} × Δo−p∞ and carries {1} × Δo−p∞ to [− 1] ∈ Δo−p∞. It sends each horizontal morphism {0}× [n] → {1} × [n] to the unique morphism [n] → [− 1]. Consider the composite

P : Δ1 × Δop →  Δop  f−→ ℬ.
          −∞     −∞
(2)

Now we will take a coCartesian lifts, using the exponentiation for coCartesian fibrations [Lur18, Tag 01VG].

These natural transformations Q and ~U Q are uniquely characterised by the property that their components are coCartesian edges [Lur18, Tag 01VG]. Because of the assumption (i) that U preserves coCartesian edges, this unicity implies that          |
U Q ≃ ~U Q||
          Δ1×Δop. In particular U q′ : Δop → 𝒞b extends to the split simplicial object        op
U~q′ : Δ −∞ → 𝒞b. By the fiberwise monadicity assumption (iii), this implies that q′ extends to a colimit diagram -′
q : (Δop)⊳ → 𝒞b such that Uq′ is also a colimit diagram. By assumption (iv) and [Lur09, Proposition 4.3.1.10] it then follows that q′ and Uq′, when regarded as diagrams in 𝒞 and 𝒟 respectively, are p-colimit diagrams. Now we can argue as in [Lur09, Corollary 4.3.1.11]. We have a commutative diagram

                         ∐
               (Δ1 × Δop)  {1}×Δop({1} × (Δ𝒞op )⊳)


(Qps(,f|q(Δ′)op)⊳)∘π       (Δ1 × Δop)⊳             ℬ

in which π : (Δ1 × Δop)⊳ → (Δop )⊳ = Δo+p⊆ Δop−∞ denotes the morphism which is the identity on {0}× Δop and which carries ({1}× Δop)⊳ to the cone point. Because the left map is an inner fibration there exists a lift s as indicated by the dashed arrow. Consider now the map Δ1 × (Δop)⊳ → (Δ1 ×Δop )⊳ which is the identity on Δ1 × Δop and carries the other vertices of Δ1 × (Δop)⊳ to the cone point. Let --
Q denote the composition

                        s
Δ1 × (Δop )⊳ → (Δ1 × Δop)⊳−→ 𝒞
(3)

and define -    -|
q :=  Q|{0}×(Δop)⊳. Then --
Q is a natural transformation from -
q to -′
q which is componentwise coCartesian. Then [Lur09, Proposition 4.3.1.9] implies that -
q is a p-colimit diagram which fits into the diagram

    Δop        𝒞

-     op⊳
qpqf|(Δo(Δp)⊳ )       ℬ

By assumption (i), U Q- is a natural transformation from U q to Uq′ which is componentwise coCartesian. Hence [Lur09, Proposition 4.3.1.9] implies that Uq is a p-colimit diagram. The underlying diagram f| op⊳
 (Δ ) of q in ℬ extends to the split simplicial diagram f and hence admits a colimit in ℬ. Hence [Lur09, Proposition 4.3.1.5(2)] implies that q and U q are colimit diagrams in 𝒞 and 𝒟 respectively. Hence 𝒞 admits and U preserves geometric realizations of U-split simplicial objects. □

References

[GHK22]   David Gepner, Rune Haugseng, and Joachim Kock. ∞-operads as analytic monads. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, (16):12516–12624, 2022.

[Lur09]    Jacob Lurie. Higher topos theory, volume 170 of Annals of Mathematics Studies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2009.

[Lur17]    Jacob Lurie. Higher Algebra. Available at https://www.math.ias.edu/~lurie/papers/HA.pdf, 2017.

[Lur18]    Jacob Lurie. Kerodon. https://kerodon.net, 2018.