From 4082373ccdd2838bced12f7bbbbca1d83701421b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Moerman Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 17:17:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adds examples of model structs --- thesis/notes/Model_Categories.tex | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/thesis/notes/Model_Categories.tex b/thesis/notes/Model_Categories.tex index d3b0418..ef58349 100644 --- a/thesis/notes/Model_Categories.tex +++ b/thesis/notes/Model_Categories.tex @@ -94,6 +94,35 @@ Note that axiom [MC5a] allows us to replace any object $X$ with a weakly equival \titem Small object argument } +\Example{top-model-structure}{ + The category $\Top$ of topological spaces admits a model structure as follows. + \begin{itemize} + \item Weak equivalences: maps inducing isomorphisms on all homotopy groups. + \item Fibrations: Serre fibrations, i.e. maps with the right lifting property with respect to the inclusions $D^n \cof D^n \times I$. + \item Cofibrations: maps $S^{n-1} \cof D^n$ and transfinite compositions of pushouts and coproducts thereof. + \end{itemize} +} + +\Example{sset-model-structure}{ + The category $\sSet$ of simplicial sets has the following model structure. + \begin{itemize} + \item Weak equivalences: + \item Fibrations: Kan fibrations, i.e. maps with the right lifting property with respect to the inclusions $\Lambda_n^k \cof \Delta[n]$. + \item Cofibrations: all monomorphisms. + \end{itemize} +} + +In this thesis we often restrict to $1$-connected spaces. The full subcategory $\Top_1$ of $1$-connected spaces satisfies MC2-MC5: the 2-out-of-3 property, retract property and lifting properties hold as we take the \emph{full} subcategory, factorizations exist as the middle space is $1$-connected as well. However $\Top_1$ does not have all limits and colimits. + +\Lemma{topr-no-colimit}{ + Let $r > 0$ and $\Top_r$ be the full subcategory of $r$-connected spaces. The diagrams + + \cimage[scale=0.5]{Topr_No_Coequalizer} + \cimage[scale=0.5]{Topr_No_Equalizer} + + have no coequalizer and respectively no equalizer in $\Top_r$. +} + \todo{Define homotopy category} \subsection{Quillen pairs}