Spahn HTT, A.2 model categories (Rev #5, changes)

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A.2.1 The model category axioms

Definition A.2.1.1

A (This is Joyal’s definition; it differs from A.2.1.1 in that Joyal requestsmodel category is a categoryCC to be finitely bicomplete.)

A model category is a category CC equipped with three distinguished classes of CC-morphisms: The classes (C)(C), (F)(F), (W)(W) of cofibrations, fibrations, and weak equivalences, respectively, satisfying the following axioms:

  • CC admits (small) limits and colimits.

  • The class of weak equivalences satisfies 2-out-of-3.

  • (CW,F)(C\cup W,F) and (C,FW)(C,F\cup W) are weak factorization systems.

A model category is a category CC equipped with three distinguished classes of morphisms in CC: The classes (C)(C), (F)(F), (W)(W) of cofibrations, fibrations, and weak equivalences, respectively, satisfying the following axioms:

Remark
  1. The classes (C)(C) and (F)(F) is closed under retracts. (by weak factorization systems, Lemma 2, in joyal’s catlab)

  2. The class (W)(W) is closed under retracts. (by model categories, Lemma 1, in joyal’s catlab)

  • CC admits (small) limits and colimits.

  • The class of weak equivalences satisfies 2-out-of-3.

  • (C)(C),(F)(F)and (W)(W) are closed under retracts.

  • (CW,F)(C\cup W,F) and (C,FW)(C,F\cup W) are weak factorization systems.

A.2.2 The homotopy category of a model category

Definition A.2.2.1

Let XX be an object in a model category.

  1. A cylinder object is defined to be a factorization of the codiagonal map XXXX\coprod X\to X for XX into a cofibration followed by a weak equivalence.

  2. A path object is defined to be a factorization of the codiagonal map XXXX\coprod X\to X for XX into a weak equivalence followed by a fibration .

Proposition A.2.2.1

A.2.3 A lifting criterion

A.2.4 Left properness and homotopy push out squares

A.2.5 Quillen adjunctions and Quillen equivalences

A.2.6 Combinatorial model categories

Definition A.2.6.1
Proposition A.2.6.13

A.2.7 Simplicial sets

A.2.8 Diagram categories and homotopy colimits

Definition A.2.8.1
Proposition A.2.8.2
Remark A.2.8.6
Proposition A.2.8.7
Remark A.2.8.8
Proposition A.2.8.9
Remark A.2.8.11

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