[[!redirects A.2 model categories]] This is a subentry of [[a reading guide to HTT]]. # Contents * Automatic table of contents {: toc} ## A.2.1 The model category axioms +-- {: .num_defn} ###### Definition (This is Joyal's definition; it differs from A.2.1.1 in that Joyal requests $C$ to be finitely bicomplete.) A *model category* is a category $C$ equipped with three distinguished classes of $C$-morphisms: The classes $(C)$, $(F)$, $(W)$ of *cofibrations, fibrations,* and *weak equivalences*, respectively, satisfying the following axioms: * $C$ admits (small) limits and colimits. * The class of weak equivalences satisfies 2-out-of-3. * $(C\cup W,F)$ and $(C,F\cup W)$ are weak factorization systems. =-- +-- {: .num_remark} ###### Remark 1. The classes $(C)$ and $(F)$ is closed under retracts. (by [weak factorization systems, Lemma 2, in joyal's catlab](http://ncatlab.org/joyalscatlab/show/Weak+factorisation+systems#main_definitions_2)) 1. The class $(W)$ is closed under retracts. (by [model categories, Lemma 1, in joyal's catlab](http://ncatlab.org/joyalscatlab/show/Model+categories)) =-- ## A.2.2 The homotopy category of a model category +-- {: .num_defn} ###### Definition Let $X$ be an object in a model category. 1. A *cylinder object* is defined to be a factorization of the codiagonal map $X\coprod X\to X$ for $X$ into a cofibration followed by a weak equivalence. 1. A *path object* is defined to be a factorization of the diagonal map $X\to X\times X$ for $X$ into a weak equivalence followed by a fibration . =-- +-- {: .un_prop #propA.2.2.1} ###### Proposition A.2.2.1 Let $C$ be a model category. Let $X$ be a cofibrant object of $C$. Let $Y$ be a fibrant object of $C$. Let $f,g:X\to Y$ be two parallel morphisms. Then the following conditions are equivalent. 1. The coproduct map $f\coprod g$ factors through every cylinder object for $X$. 1. The coproduct map $f\coprod g$ factors through some cylinder object for $X$. 1. The product map $f\times g$ factors through every path object for $Y$. 1. The product map $f\times g$ factors through some path object for $Y$. =-- +-- {: .num_defn} ###### Definition (homotopy, homotopy category of a model category) Let $C$ be a model category. (1) Two maps $f,g:X\to Y$ from a cofibrant object to a fibrant object satisfying the conditions of [Proposition A.2.2.1](#propA.2.2.1) are called *homotopic morphisms*. Homotopy is an equivalence relation $\simeq$ on $hom_C (X,Y)$. (2) The *homotopy category $h C$ of $C$* is defined to have as objects the fibrant-cofibrant objects of $C$. The hom objects $hom_{hC}(X,Y)$ are defined to be the set of $\simeq$ equivalence classes of $hom_C (X,Y)$. =-- ## A.2.3 A lifting criterion The following proposition says that a factorization of a cofibration between cofibrant objects which exists in the homotopy category of a model category can be lifted into the model category. +-- {: .un_prop #propA.2.3.1} ###### Proposition A.2.3.1 =-- ## A.2.4 Left properness and homotopy push out squares In every model category the class of fibrations is stable under pullback and the class of cofibrations is stable under pushout. In general weak equivalences do not have such properties. The following definition requests such. +-- {: .un_defn} ###### Definition A.2.4.1 1. A model category is called *left proper* if the pushout of a weak equivalence along a cofibration is a weak equivalence. 1. A model category is called *right proper* if the pullback of a weak equivalence along a fibration is a weak equivalence. =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition Any model category in which every object is cofibrant is left proper. =-- +-- {: .un_lemma} ###### Lemma A.2.4.3 The push out along a cofibration of a weak equivalence between cofibrant objects is always a weak equivalence. =-- ## A.2.5 Quillen adjunctions and Quillen equivalences A Quillen adjunction is an appropriate notion of *morphism between model categories*. +-- {: .num_prop #Quillenadjunction} ###### Proposition and Definition An adjoint pair of functors $(F\dashv G):D\stackrel{G}{\to}C$ is called a *Quillen adjunction* if the following equivalent conditions are satisfied: 1. $F$ preserves cofibrations and acyclic cofibrations. 1. $G$ preserves fibrations and acyclic fibrations. 1. $F$ preserves cofibrations and $G$ preserves fibrations. 1. $F$ preserves acyclic cofibrations and $G$ preserves acyclic fibrations. =-- +--{: .num_remark} ###### Remark Let $(F\dashv G)$ be a Quillen adjunction. Then 1. $F$ preserves weak equivalences between cofibrant objects. 1. $G$ preserves weak equivalences between fibrant objects. =-- +-- {: .num_remark} ###### Remark (descent of a Quillen adjunction to an adjunction between the homotopy category) Given a model category $C$ we obtain its homotopy category $hC$ be passing to its full subcategory of cofibrant objects and the formally inverting the weak equivalences. If $(F\dashv G):D\stackrel{G}{\to}C$ is a Quillen adjunction $F$ induces a functor $L F:hC\to hD$ since $F$ preserves weak equivalences between cofibrant objects. Analogously $G$ preserves weak equivalences between fibrant objects and we obtain $hD$ from $D$ by passing to the category of fibrant objects of $D$ and formally invert the weak equivalences and hence $G$ induces a functor $RG:hD\to hC$. In total one can show that $(LF\dashv RG):hD\stackrel{RG}{\to}hC$ form an adjunction. Abstracty one can obtain this result by [[nLab:Kan extension]] (this is also described at [[nLab:derived functor]]); however Quillen adjunction's are introduced to present adjunctions between $\infty$-categories and to obtain such a presentation in terms of Kan extension in general requires additional assumptions: In more detail we wish to extend $F : C \to D$ (for $G$ analogously) to a diagram $$ \array{ C &\stackrel{F}{\to}& D \\ \downarrow^{\mathrlap{Q_C}} &(?)& \downarrow^{\mathrlap{Q_D}} \\ hC&\to& hD } \,, $$ where $Q_C : C \to hC$ is the universal morphism characterizing the [[nLab:homotopy category]] and similarly for $Q_D$. This is accomplished by taking $hC\to hD$ to be either the left ($LF:=Lan_{Q_C} Q_d \circ F$) or right ($RF:=Ran_{Q_C} Q_d \circ F$) [[nLab:Kan extension]] of $Q_d \circ F$ along $Q_C$. =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition A.2.5.1 (characterization of derived functors, Quilen adjunction) Let $(F\dashv G):D\stackrel{G}{\to}C$ be a Quillen adjunction of model categories. Then the following are equivalent: 1. The left derived functor $LF:hC\to hD$ is an equivalence of categories. 1. The right derived functor $RF:hD\to hC$ is an equivalence of categories. 1. For every cofibrant object $c\in C$ and every fibrant object $D\in D$, a map $c\to G(d)$ is a weak equivalence iff the adjoint map $F(c)\to d$ is a weak equivalence. $(F\dashv G)$ is called Quillen equivalence if these conditions are satisfied. =-- ## A.2.6 Combinatorial model categories (transclusion: +-- {: .un_defn} ###### Definition A.1.2.2 (weakly saturated class of morphisms) Let $C$ be a category with all small colimits. A class $S$ of $C$-morphisms is called a *weakly saturated class* if the following conditions are satisfied. 1. $S$ is closed under forming pushouts (along arbitrary $C$-morphisms). 1. $S$ is closed under [[nLab:transfinite composition]]. 1. $S$ is closed under forming [[nLab:retract|retracts]]. =-- ) +-- {: .un_defn} ###### Definition A.2.6.1 =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition A.2.6.13 =-- ## A.2.7 Simplicial sets ## A.2.8 Diagram categories and homotopy colimits +-- {: .un_defn} ###### Definition A.2.8.1 =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition A.2.8.2 =-- +-- {: .un_remark} ###### Remark A.2.8.6 =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition A.2.8.7 =-- +-- {: .un_remark} ###### Remark A.2.8.8 =-- +-- {: .un_prop} ###### Proposition A.2.8.9 =-- +-- {: .un_remark} ###### Remark A.2.8.11 =--