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The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)

The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories By Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)

The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories by Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)


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Homotopical or ( ,1)-categories have become a significant framework in many areas of mathematics. This book gives an introduction to the different approaches to these structures and the comparisons between them from the perspective of homotopy theory.

The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories Summary

The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories by Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)

The notion of an ( ,1)-category has become widely used in homotopy theory, category theory, and in a number of applications. There are many different approaches to this structure, all of them equivalent, and each with its corresponding homotopy theory. This book provides a relatively self-contained source of the definitions of the different models, the model structure (homotopy theory) of each, and the equivalences between the models. While most of the current literature focusses on how to extend category theory in this context, and centers in particular on the quasi-category model, this book offers a balanced treatment of the appropriate model structures for simplicial categories, Segal categories, complete Segal spaces, quasi-categories, and relative categories, all from a homotopy-theoretic perspective. Introductory chapters provide background in both homotopy and category theory and contain many references to the literature, thus making the book accessible to graduates and to researchers in related areas.

The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories Reviews

'The writing is accessible, even for students, and the ideas are clear. The author gives references for every claim and definition, with the added advantage that some technical [lengthy] points can be left out to avoid burying the ideas.' Najib Idrissi, zbMATH

About Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)

Julia E. Bergner is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She has written several foundational papers in the area of ( , 1)-categories, and is currently working on generalizations to higher ( , n)-categories, ( , 1)-operads, and equivariant versions. She currently has an NSF CAREER award to investigate algebraic and geometric applications of these kinds of structures. This book was inspired by the notes from a series of lectures on 'The Homotopy Theory of Homotopy Theories' presented in Israel in 2010, with talks given by the author and a number of other participants.

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Models for homotopy theories; 2. Simplicial objects; 3. Topological and categorical motivation; 4. Simplicial categories; 5. Complete Segal spaces; 6. Segal categories; 7. Quasi-categories; 8. Relative categories; 9. Comparing functors to complete Segal spaces; 10. Variants on ( , 1)-categories; References; Index.

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NLS9781107499027
9781107499027
110749902X
The Homotopy Theory of ( ,1)-Categories by Julia E. Bergner (University of Virginia)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2018-03-15
284
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