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April 24, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Dialectics as Rewriting of Rewriting in Homotopy Category Theory

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YHYugo Hidaka

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore homotopy reflection structures in (∞,2)-categories and their implications for categorical frameworks.
  • Introduced homotopy reflection structures with an involutive endofunctor.
  • Defined obstruction classes based on mapping spaces and studied their behavior under coherent functors.
  • Analyzed interaction with locally discrete (∞,2)-categories.
  • All reflection obstruction classes are annihilated under homotopy coherent functors.
  • Establishes a fundamental incompatibility between reflection-based data and discrete realizations.
  • Identifies a homotopy-theoretic obstruction to faithful realization under truncation.

Abstract

We introduce homotopy reflection structures in (∞,2)-categories, equipped with a homotopy coherent involutive endofunctor and associated difference data defined at the level of mapping spaces. We define reflection obstruction classes arising from nontrivial elements in the fundamental group of mapping spaces and study their behavior under homotopy coherent functors into locally discrete (∞,2)-categories. Our main result shows that all reflection obstruction classes are annihilated under any such functor, demonstrating a fundamental incompatibility between reflection-based homotopy data and discrete categorical realizations. This provides a homotopy-theoretic obstruction to the faithful realization of reflection structures under truncation and can be interpreted as a failure of preservation of higher coherence data.

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Yugo Hidaka (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69eb0c39553a5433e34b599chttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19701749
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