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A simplicially enriched category is a category with a simplicial set of morphisms between any two objects.
One may think of the 1-cells in a hom-simplicial set as a 2-morphism, the 2-cells as a 3-morphism and generally a -cell as a k-morphism. Therefore simplicially enriched categories may serves as models for ∞-categories. Precisely which notion of -category depends on which extra structure and property one imposes.
For instance
requiring the hom-simplicial sets to be Kan complexes makes simplicially enriched categories a model for (∞,1)-categories;
similary, equipping the -enriched category with the structure of a -enriched model category – a simplicial model category – makes it a model for an -category.
This is discussed in more detail at relation between quasi-categories and simplicial categories.
on the other hand, equipping the -enriched category with the structure of an -enriched model category over the Joyal-model structure for quasi-categories makes it a model for an (∞,2)-category.
A simplicially enriched category is a category enriched over the cartesian monoidal category sSet of simplicial sets.
These -enriched categories are sometimes, somewhat imprecisely, called just simplicial categories.
There is a related notion of simplicial groupoid with the added requirement that all arrows in the categories concerned are isomorphisms.
Since simplicial sets that are Kan complexes are an incarnation of ∞-groupoids, an -category all whose hom-objects happen to be Kan complexes may be regarded as a category enriched in ∞-groupoids. By the logic of (n,r)-category theory this should be a model for an (∞,1)-category.
Treating simplicial categories this way as models for -categories is one of the central tools in homotopy coherent category theory.
Indeed, there is a model structure on simplicial categories whose fibrant objects are Kan-complex-enriched categories, and which is one model for the (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-categories.
By a web of Quillen equivalences this is related to the other incarnations of -categories. Notably to quasi-categories and complete Segal spaces. For more on this see
To every category with weak equivalences is associated its simplicial localization , which is an -category with the property that its homotopy category of an (∞,1)-category coincides with the homotopy category .
There is a model structure on sSet-categories that presents the (∞,1)-category (∞,1)Cat.
The notion of homotopy Kan extension and hence in particular that of homotopy limit and homotopy colimit has a direct formulation in terms of Kan-complex-enriched categories. See homotopy Kan extension for more.
All of (∞,1)-topos theory can be modeled in terms of -categories. (ToënVezzosi). There is a notion of sSet-site that models the notion of (∞,1)-site and a model structure on sSet-enriched presheaves on -sites that is a presentation for the ∞-stack (∞,1)-toposes on .
See (∞,2)-category.
simplicially enriched category
See also:
Discussion the context of (simplicial) model category theory:
Daniel Quillen, II §1 of: Homotopical Algebra, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 43, Springer (1967) [doi:10.1007/BFb0097438]
Philip Hirschhorn, Section 9.1.1 of: Model Categories and Their Localizations, AMS Math. Survey and Monographs Vol 99 (2002) (ISBN:978-0-8218-4917-0, pdf toc, pdf)
Bertrand Toën, Gabriele Vezzosi, Section 2 of: Topos theory, Advances in Mathematics 193 2 (2005) 257-372 [arXiv:0207028, doi:10.1016/j.aim.2004.05.004]
Jacob Lurie, Section A.3 in: Higher Topos Theory, Annals of Mathematics Studies 170, Princeton University Press 2009 (pup:8957, pdf)
Emily Riehl, §3.6 in: Categorical Homotopy Theory, Cambridge University Press (2014) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781107261457, pdf]
The original references in the context of simplicial localization:
William Dwyer, Daniel Kan, Simplicial localizations of categories, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 17 3 (1980), 267-284 [doi:10.1016/0022-4049(80)90049-3]
William Dwyer, Daniel Kan, Equivalences between homotopy theories of diagrams, in: Algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory, Ann. of Math. Stud. 113, Princeton University Pr
Simplicially enriched categories as models for -categories are also discussed in
Homotopy coherent category theory on -categories is discussed in
which describes resolutions of the simplicial functor categories between two simplicial categories and
which shows that these resolved functor categories are in fact -A-∞ categories.
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