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prose: refine prose for locally graded categories
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There is a striking similarity between [[displayed categories]], enriched categories,
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and actegories. All three of these concepts take the basic algebra of a category and
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replace the hom *sets* with some other notion of morphism taken from some base category
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replace the hom *sets* with some other notion of morphism graded by some base category
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$B$, and then equip those morphisms with an action of $B$.
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For a displayed category $\cE$, hom sets are replaced hom *families* indexed by
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some category $B$. The action of $B$ is a bit hard to see initially, but
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becomes painfully clear once you've gotten your hands dirty: it is given
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by transport of hom families.
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For a displayed category $\cE \liesover \cB$, our $\cB$-graded morphisms
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are the displayed hom sets $\cE_{u}(X', Y')$ over indexed over a $u : \cB(X,Y)$.
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The action of $\cB$ is a bit hard to see initially, but becomes painfully
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clear once you've gotten your hands dirty: it is given by transport of hom families.
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For an enriched category $\cC$, we replace hom sets with hom *objects* $\cC(X,Y) : \cV$ taken
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from some [[monoidal category]] $V$. The action of $V$ is a bit tricky
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to see at first, but becomes clear when we consider generalized elements
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$\cV(\Gamma, \cC(X,Y))$ of a hom object: it is given via precomposition with
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a morphism $\cC(\Delta, \Gamma)$.
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For an enriched category $\cC$, our $\cV$-graded morphisms are generalized
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elements $\cV(\Gamma, \cC(X,Y))$ for $\Gamma : \cV$. Moreover, $\cV$ acts on
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graded morphisms $\cV(\Gamma, \cC(X,Y))$ via precomposition with a morphism
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$\cV(\Delta, \Gamma)$.
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Finally, for an actegory $\cC$ equipped with an action $\oslash : \cV \times \cC \to \cC$,
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the appropriate notion of morphism is not a map $\cC(X,Y)$ in $\cC$, but rather a
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sort of "$\cV$-generalized morphism" $\cC(\Gamma \oslash X, Y)$ where $\Gamma : \cV$.
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The action of $\cV$ on these morphisms is given by functoriality of $\oslash$.
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the appropriate notion of $V$-graded morphism is a sort of sort of "$\cV$-generalized morphism"
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$\cC(\Gamma \oslash X, Y)$ where $\Gamma : \cV$. The action of $\cV$ on these morphisms is given
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by functoriality of $\oslash$ and precomposition.
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**Locally graded categories** simultaneously generalize these three related notions
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by combining the indexing of a displayed category with a sort of "directed transport"
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- A family of morphisms $\cC_1 : \cB_1(X,Y) \to \cC_0(X) \to \cC_0(Y) \to \set$ indexed
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by the 1-cells of $\cB$.
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- Identity and composite morphisms indexed over the identity 1-cell and composites of 1-cells.
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- An action $[_] : \cB_2(u,v) \to \cC_1(v,X',Y') \to \cC_1(u,X',Y')$ of 2-cells of $\cB$
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- An action $[-] : \cB_2(u,v) \to \cC_1(v,X',Y') \to \cC_1(u,X',Y')$ of 2-cells of $\cB$
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on morphisms of $\cC$.
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```agda

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