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A homotopical category is a structure used in homotopy theory, related to but more flexible than a model category.
A homotopical category is a category with a distinguished class of morphisms (called ‘weak equivalences’) satisfying the following conditions:
Every identity map is a weak equivalence.
It has the 2-out-of-6-property: if morphisms and are weak equivalences, then so are , , and .
If the first condition in Def. 2 holds, then the 2-out-of-6-property implies the 2-out-of-3 property, hence every homotopical category is a category with weak equivalences.
Every model category yields a homotopical category.
A functor between homotopical categories which preserves weak equivalences is a homotopical functor.
Every homotopical category “presents” or “models” an (infinity,1)-category , a simplicially enriched category called the simplicial localization of , which is in some sense the universal solution to inverting the weak equivalence up to higher categorical morphisms.
category with a calculus of fractions
This definition is in page 23 of
with the main development of the concept starting in subsection 33 on page 96.
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