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Homotopy coequalizers are a special case of homotopy colimits, when the indexing diagram is the walking parallel pair, consisting of a pair of parallel morphisms, i.e., two objects, 0 and 1, and exactly two nonidentity morphisms, both of the form .
Homotopy coequalizers can be defined in any relative category, just like homotopy colimits, but practical computations are typically carried out in presence of additional structures such as model structures.
In any model category, the homotopy coequalizer of a pair of arrows can be computed as follows. First, if is not cofibrant and the model category is not left proper, construct a cofibrant replacement and replace with .
Assume now that is cofibrant or the model category is left proper.
In the special case when the map
happens to be a cofibration, we can compute the ordinary coequalizer of and , which is a homotopy coequalizer.
In the general case, factor the codiagonal map as a cofibration followed by a weak equivalence , then compute the (ordinary) pushout of
This is the homotopy coequalizer of and .
In simplicial sets with simplicial weak equivalences, the homotopy coequalizer of can be computed as the pushout
The same formula works for topological spaces with weak homotopy equivalences, using .
For chain complexes with quasi-isomorphisms, the homotopy coequalizer can be computed (expanding the analogous formula with ) as
where
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