Simplicial structures on model categories and functors

Localization of model category structures: Summary of part 1 Local spaces and localization The localization model category for spaces Localization of model categories Existence of left Bousfield localizations Existence of right Bousfield localizations Fiberwise localization Homotopy theory in model categories: Summary of part 2 Model categories Fibrant and cofibrant approximations Simplicial model categories Ordinals, cardinals, and transfinite composition Cofibrantly generated model categories Cellular model categories Proper model categories The classifying space of a small category The Reedy model category structure Cosimplicial and simplicial resolutions Homotopy function complexes Homotopy limits in simplicial model categories Homotopy limits in general model categories Index Bibliography.

We show that the category of algebraically cofibrant objects in a combinatorial and simplicial model category A has a model structure that is left-induced from that on A. In particular it follows that any presentable model category is Quillen equivalent (via a single Quillen equivalence) to one in which all objects are cofibrant.

In this paper we show that model categories of a very broad class can be replaced up to Quillen equivalence by simplicial model categories.

The model structure on the category of chain functors Ch, developed in [4], has the main features of a simplicial model category structure, taking into account the lack of arbitrary (co-)limits in Ch. After an appropriate tensor and cotensor structure in Ch is established (§1, §3), Quillen’s axiom SM7 is verified in §5 and §6. Moreover, it turns out that in the definition of a simplicial model structure, the category of simplicial sets can be replaced by the category of simplicial spectra endowing Ch with the structure of an approximate simplicial stable model structure (= approximate ss-model structure) (§7). In §8 the model structure on Ch is shown to be proper.

It is known that, in a locally presentable category, localization exists with respect to every set of morphisms, while the statement that localization with respect to every (possibly proper) class of morphisms exists in locally presentable categories is equivalent to a large-cardinal axiom from set theory. One proves similarly, on one hand, that homotopy localization exists with respect to sets of maps in every cofibrantly generated, left proper, simplicial model category M whose underlying category is locally presentable. On the other hand, as we show in this article, the existence of localization with respect to possibly proper classes of maps in a model category M satisfying the above assumptions is implied by a large-cardinal axiom called Vopënka's principle, although we do not know if the reverse implication holds. We also show that, under the same assumptions on M, every endofunctor of M that is idempotent up to homotopy is equivalent to localization with respect to some class S of maps, and if Vopënka's principle holds then S can be chosen to be a set. There are examples showing that the latter need not be true if M is not cofibrantly generated. The above assumptions on M are satisfied by simplicial sets and symmetric spectra over simplicial sets, among many other model categories.

Homotopic Descent over Monoidal Model Categories

Homotopy limits in simplicial model categories

Higher inductive typesare a class of type-forming rules, introduced to provide basic (and not-so-basic) homotopy-theoretic constructions in a type-theoretic style. They have proven very fruitful for the “synthetic” development of homotopy theory within type theory, as well as in formalising ordinary set-level mathematics in type theory. In this paper, we construct models of a wide range of higher inductive types in a fairly wide range of settings.We introduce the notion ofcell monad with parameters: a semantically-defined scheme for specifying homotopically well-behaved notions of structure. We then show that any suitable model category hasweakly stable typal initial algebrasfor any cell monad with parameters. When combined with the local universes construction to obtain strict stability, this specialises to give models of specific higher inductive types, including spheres, the torus, pushout types, truncations, the James construction and general localisations.Our results apply in any sufficiently nice Quillen model category, including any right proper, simplicially locally cartesian closed, simplicial Cisinski model category (such as simplicial sets) and any locally presentable locally cartesian closed category (such as sets) with its trivial model structure. In particular, any locally presentable locally cartesian closed (∞, 1)-category is presented by some model category to which our results apply.

Spectra and symmetric spectra in general model categories

We construct Quillen equivalences between the model categories of monoids (rings), modules and algebras over two Quillen equivalent model categories under certain conditions. This is a continuation of our earlier work where we established model categories of monoids, modules and algebras [Algebras and modules in monoidal model categories, Proc. London Math. Soc. 80 (2000), 491-511]. As an application we extend the Dold-Kan equivalence to show that the model categories of simplicial rings, modules and algebras are Quillen equivalent to the associated model categories of connected differential graded rings, modules and algebras. We also show that our classification results from [Stable model categories are categories of modules, Topology, 42 (2003) 103-153] concerning stable model categories translate to any one of the known symmetric monoidal model categories of spectra.

We develop a rigidity criterion to show that in simplicial model categories with a compatible symmetric monoidal structure, operad structures can be automatically lifted along certain maps. This is applied to obtain an unpublished result of M. J. Hopkins that certain towers of generalized Moore spectra, closely related to the K(n)-local sphere, are E-infinity algebras in the category of pro-spectra. In addition, we show that Adams resolutions automatically satisfy the above rigidity criterion. In order to carry this out we develop the concept of an operadic model category, whose objects have homotopically tractable endomorphism operads.

We establish a Quillen equivalence relating the homotopy theory of Segal operads and the homotopy theory of simplicial operads, from which we deduce that the homotopy coherent nerve functor is a right Quillen equivalence from the model category of simplicial operads to the model category structure for infinity-operads on the category of dendroidal sets. By slicing over the monoidal unit, this also gives the Quillen equivalence between Segal categories and simplicial categories proved by J. Bergner, as well as the Quillen equivalence between quasi-categories and simplicial categories proved by A. Joyal and J. Lurie. We also explain how this theory applies to the usual notion of operad (i.e. with a single colour) in the category of spaces.

Function complexes in homotopical algebra

The Stable Homotopy Category Has a Unique Model at the Prime 2

Representability theorems for presheaves of spectra