English

Cofibration and Model Category Structures for Discrete and Continuous Homotopy

Algebraic Topology 2022-10-03 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

We show that the categories PsTop and Lim of pseudotopological spaces and limit spaces, respectively, admit cofibration category structures, and that PsTop admits a model category structure, giving several ways to simultaneously study the homotopy theory of classical topological spaces, combinatorial spaces such as graphs and matroids, and metric spaces endowed with a privileged scale, in addition to spaces of maps between them. In the process, we give a sufficient condition for a topological construct which contains compactly generated Hausdorff spaces as a subcategory to admit an II-category structure. We further show that, for a topological space XCX\in C, the homotopy groups of XX constructed in the cofibration category on PsTop are isomorphic to those constructed classically in Top^*.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.13510,
  title  = {Cofibration and Model Category Structures for Discrete and Continuous Homotopy},
  author = {Antonio Rieser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13510},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages, corrected typos, removed some well-known results from the preliminary Section 2

R2 v1 2026-06-28T02:12:50.166Z