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Cubes are dense in (infty,infty)-categories

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arxiv 2209.09376 v1 pith:5BA6PXZX submitted 2022-09-19 math.CT

Cubes are dense in (infty,infty)-categories

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We show that the strict 1-category $\square$ of cubes -- defined to be the full subcategory of strict $\omega$-categories whose objects are the Gray tensor powers of the arrow category -- are dense in the $(\infty,1)$-category $\mathsf{Cat}_\omega$ of weak $(\infty,\infty)$-categories, in both Rezk-complete and incomplete variants. More precisely, we show that Joyal's category $\Theta$ is contained in the idempotent completion of $\square$, and in fact that the idempotent completion of $\square$ is closed under suspensions and wedge sums. This result extends a theorem of Campbell and Maehara in dimension 2. Following Campbell and Maehara's program, we will in future work apply this result to give a new construction of the Gray tensor product of weak $(\infty,n)$-categories.

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