Sigma limits in 2-categories and flat pseudofunctors

As an application, we establish the 2-dimensional theory of flat pseudofunctors. We define a Cat-valued pseudofunctor to be flat when its left bi-Kan extension along the Yoneda 2-functor preserves finite weighted bilimits. We introduce a notion of 2-filteredness of a 2-category with respect to a class Σ, which we call σ-filtered. Our main result is: A pseudofunctorA⟶Catis flat if and only if it is a σ-filtered σ-bicolimit of representable 2-functors. In particular the reader will notice the relevance of this result for the development of a theory of 2-topoi.