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model structure on dg-coalgebras

Context

Model category theory

model category

Definitions

Morphisms

Universal constructions

Refinements

Producing new model structures

Presentation of (,1)-categories

Model structures

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Contents

Idea

A model category structure on the category of dg-coalgebras.

Definition

Let k be a field of characteristic 0.

Proposition

There is a pair of adjoint functors

(𝒞):dgLieAlg k𝒞dgCoCAlg k(\mathcal{L} \dashv \mathcal{C}) \;\colon\; dgLieAlg_k \stackrel{\overset{\mathcal{L}}{\leftarrow}}{\underset{\mathcal{C}}{\to}} dgCoCAlg_k

between the category of dg-Lie algebras (on unbounded chain complexes) and that of dg cocommutative coalgebras, where the right adjoint sends a dg-Lie algebra (𝔤 ,[,]) to its “Chevalley-Eilenberg coalgebra”, whose underlying coalgebra is the free graded co-commutative coalgebra on 𝔤 and whose differential is given on the tensor product of two generators by the Lie bracket [,].

Theorem

There exists a model category structure on dgCoCAlg k for which

  • the cofibrations are the (degreewise) injections;

  • the weak equivalences are those morphisms that become quasi-isomorphisms under the functor from prop. 1.

Moreover, this is naturally a simplicial model category structure.

This is (Hinich98, theorem, 3.1). More details on this are in the relevant sections at model structure for L-infinity algebras.

Properties

Relation to the model structure on dg-Lie algebras

Proposition

The functor 𝒞 from prop. 1 is a right Quillen functor.

(Hinich98, lemma 5.3.2)

Hence (𝒞) is a Quillen adjunction to the model structure on dg-algebras.

Proposition

The adjunction of prop. 1 constitutes a Quillen equivalence to the model structure on dg-Lie algebras.

This is (Hinich98, theore, 3.2).

References

  • Dan Quillen, Rational homotopy theory , Annals of Math., 90(1969), 205–295. (see Appendix B)

  • Ezra Getzler, Paul Goerss, A model category structure for differential graded coalgebras (ps)

  • Vladimir Hinich, Homological algebra of homotopy algebras , Comm. in algebra, 25(10)(1997), 3291–3323.

Revised on March 29, 2013 03:16:52 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.139.104)