TITLE: Topologically enriched homotopy colimits commuting with homotopy pullbacks
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Hi,
I am looking for an enriched analogon of Proposition 4.4 in https://www.google.de/url?q=http://hopf.math.purdue.edu/Rezk-Schwede-Shipley/simplicial.pdf
Concretely, I would like to prove the following statement:
Suppose $K$ is a topologically enriched category, i. e. the morphism sets carry a topology and composition is continuous. For a functor $X: K \to Top$, I can consider an enriched version of the homotopy colimit, namely $hocolim X$ is the realization of the simplicial space $srep X$, whose $n$-th level is given by
$ \coprod_{k_0,\ldots,k_n \in (ob K)^n} K(k_0, k_1) \times \ldots \times K(k_{n-1},k_n) \times X(k_0)$
Then, suppose there is a natural transformation between (enriched) functors $X,Y: K \to Top$, such that the diagram
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
X(k) & \to & Y(k)
\end{array}$$
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
 X(l) & \to &Y(l)
\end{array}
$$
is a homotopy pullback for all $k,l \in ob\ K$ and all morphisms $\alpha: k \to l$, which induce the (missing) vertical arrows.
Then the diagram
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
X(k) & \to & Y(k)
\end{array}$$
$$
\begin{array}{ccc}
 hocolim X & \to &hocolim Y
\end{array}
$$
is a homotopy pullback for all $k \in ob K$.
Has anyone ever seen a statement like this or an idea on how to prove it? If it helps, one may assume that the natural transformations $X \to Y$ is levelwise a Serre fibration of topological spaces, since this is the only case, in which I need the statement to be true.
Thanks in advance,
Alex

REPLY [4 votes]: I haven't thought about this hard (no time) but here are quick observations.
Your homotopy colimit is the bar construction $B(\ast,K,X)$, the geometric
realization of the simplicial space with $n$-simplices $B_n(\ast,K,X)$, as
you state.  The map $X(k) \to B(\ast,K,X)$ you are interested in is the
geometric realization of the map from the constant simplicial space at $X(k)$
to $B_*(\ast, K, X)$ that identifies $X(k)$ with the subspace of $B_n(\ast,K,X)$
that sees only identity maps of the object $k$.
Homotopy pullbacks of diagrams one leg of which is a (Hurewicz) fibration 
are equivalent to actual pullbacks, so one approach might be to try to prove 
that $B(\ast,K,X) \to B(\ast,K,Y)$ is a fibration.   It is standard that 
geometric realization of simplicial spaces preserves pullbacks (takes levelwise
pullbacks to pullbacks).  A variation on the theme of replacing maps by fibrations 
should convince you that geometric realization also preserves homotopy pullbacks
(takes levelwise homotopy pullbacks to homotopy pullbacks).
So you would like your map to be the realization of a levelwise homotopy pullback.
However, your stated hypothesis feels wrong to me, since it does not take the topology 
on the category K into account. Your hypothesis presumably should say that the 
evident square with upper left corner $K(\ell,k)$ and lower right corner 
$Map(X(k),Y(\ell))$ is a homotopy pullback.  Assuming that, you should be able
to prove that your map of simplicial spaces is a levelwise homotopy pullback, 
and then you would be done.
Hope that helps a bit.