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11:16 AM
Hi guys, a question for you. If have a map of simplicial sets $D \to C$ and an homotopy equivalence $C' \to C$, is it true that the pullback $D' $ is homotopy equivalent to $D$?
In case additional hypothesis are needed, I am particulary interested in the case $D$ is a family of operads, $C= N(Fin) \times X$ is the parameter space with $X$ contractible, $C' = N(Fin)$.
 
 
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12:18 PM
@AndreaMarino In general it is false (e.g. let C'→C be the first face map Δ°→Δ¹ and D→C be ðΔ¹→Δ¹).
 
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Maybe it is the homotopy pullback that gives the correspondence $sSet_{/C} \simeq sSet_{/C'}$
whenever $C,C'$ are equivalent.
Indeed, it seems to me that in order for $\Delta^0 \to \Delta^1$ to be an equivalence, one must invert the only arrow in $\Delta^1$ (otherwise it is not essentially surjective), getting $I$. In that case the homotopy fiber of $1$ in $\partial \Delta^1 \to I$ is equivalent to $\partial \Delta^1$ by the formula $\partial \Delta^1 \times_{I} I^{\simeq}_{/1}$.
If I am not wrong, the homotopy pullback varies up to homotopy equivalence if we vary one factor up to homotopy equivalence, and $C' \to C$ can be susbtituted by $1_C$.
 
1:06 PM
@AndreaMarino What do you mean with homotopy equivalence then?
You certainly have a map Δ¹→Δ° such that the two compositions are Δ¹-homotopic to the identity...
 
But recall that in $Cat_{\infty}$ map sets are given by $Fun(C,D)^{\simeq}$, so that being homotopic to the identity means via a componentwise equivalence! So $1_{\Delta^1}$ and $const_{0}$ are not homotopic.. Am i wrong?
 
1:35 PM
Well, it was not obvious you were working in Cat_∞. You just said "simplicial sets" :)
So you really meant an equivalence of ∞-categories?
 
1:49 PM
(In any case my counterexample works with Δ¹ replaced by the nerve of the contractible groupoid with two elements)
 
2:34 PM
@DenisNardin you are right! Yes, the counterexample works the same.
 

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