Ambimorphic?
Posted by Urs Schreiber
A question on the interpretation of the fundamental path -groupoid as an ambimorphic object: an -groupoid valued co-presheaf:
At the moment I am trying to rework my various notes on action -algebroids and their relation to action -groupoids, with the prime example of interest the BRST complex (the action Lie -algebroid of the gauge -group acting on the space of fields):
On action Lie -groupoids and action Lie -algebroids (pdf in preparation)
In an attempt to further conceptualize the point of -Lie theory (integration of -algebras to smooth Lie -groupoids and differentiation of the former to the latter) I drew figure 1 on p. 5.
On the right in this figure we see the adjunction between smooth spaces and differential graded commutative algebras induced by homming into the ambimorphic object (a DGCA-valued smooth space) that, thankfully, Todd Trimble has helped discussing here a lot, a while ago.
On the left of this figure I have inserted a similar pair of morphisms, now relating smooth spaces with smooth -groupoids, induced by homming out of the -groupoid valued co-presheaf which sends each smooth space to its fundamental path -groupoid .
With my fingers on autopilot I kept typing about how this is an adjunction due to ambimorphicity of . But then realized that it’s at least a bit more subtle, with not being an ambimorphic space, but an ambimorphic quantity (as in space and quantity).
I bet it is still right that homming out of induces an adjunction between smooth spaces and smooth -groupoids .But I got to call it quits for today. I thought maybe sombody could help me with a hint while I catch my train back home.