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On certain 2-categories admitting localisation by bicategories of fractions
Pronk's theorem on bicategories of fractions is applied, in almost all cases in the literature, to 2-categories of geometrically presentable stacks on a 1-site. We give an proof that subsumes all previous such results and which is purely 2-categorical in nature, ignoring the nature of the objects involved. The proof holds for 2-categories that are not (2,1)-categories, and we give conditions for local essential smallness.David Michael Robert
The elementary construction of formal anafunctors
This article gives an elementary and formal 2-categorical construction of a
bicategory of right fractions analogous to anafunctors, starting from a
2-category equipped with a family of covering maps that are fully faithful and
co-fully faithful.Comment: v1: 20 pages, many diagrams. v2: updated after referee comments, 32
pages. v3: one minor terminology change, one proof streamlined after
additional feedback, 32 page