A Cartan-Eilenberg approach to homotopical algebra

In this paper we propose an approach to homotopical algebra where the basic ingredient is a category with two classes of distinguished morphisms: strong and weak equivalences. These data determine the cofibrant objects by an extension property analogous to the classical lifting property of projectiv...

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Autores: Pascual Gainza, Pere|||0000-0001-5097-7192, Roig Martí, Agustín|||0000-0002-4589-8075, Guillén Santos, Francisco, Navarro Aznar, Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1236
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/1236
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Category theory (Mathematics)
Homological algebra
Derived functors,
Minimal models
Acyclic models
Quillen model category
Models of a functor
Cofibrant object
Relative localisation
Àlgebra homològica
Categories (Matemàtica)
Classificació AMS::55 Algebraic topology::55U Applied homological algebra and category theory
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Sumario:In this paper we propose an approach to homotopical algebra where the basic ingredient is a category with two classes of distinguished morphisms: strong and weak equivalences. These data determine the cofibrant objects by an extension property analogous to the classical lifting property of projective modules. We define a Cartan-Eilenberg category as a category with strong and weak equivalences such that there is an equivalence of categories between its localisation with respect to weak equivalences and the relative localisation of the subcategory of cofibrant objets with respect to strong equivalences. This equivalence of categories allows us to extend the classical theory of derived additive functors to this non additive setting. The main examples include Quillen model categories and categories of functors defined on a category endowed with a cotriple (comonad) and taking values on a category of complexes of an abelian category. In the latter case there are examples in which the class of strong equivalences is not determined by a homotopy relation. Among other applications of our theory, we establish a very general acyclic models theorem.