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Sur les A-infini cat\'egories

Category Theory 2007-05-23 v1 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We study (not necessarily connected) Z-graded A-infinity-algebras and their A-infinity-modules. Using the cobar and the bar construction and Quillen's homotopical algebra, we describe the localisation of the category of A-infinity-algebras with respect to A-infintity-quasi-isomorphisms. We then adapt these methods to describe the derived category of an augmented A-infinity-algebra A. The case where A is not endowed with an augmentation is treated differently. Nevertheless, when A is strictly unital, its derived category can be described in the same way as in the augmented case. Next, we compare two different notions of A-infinity-unitarity : strict unitarity and homological unitarity. We show that, up to homotopy, there is no difference between these two notions. We then establish a formalism which allows us to view A-infini-categories as A-infinity-algebras in suitable monoidal categories. We generalize the fundamental constructions of category theory to this setting : Yoneda embeddings, categories of functors, equivalences of categories... We show that any algebraic triangulated category T which admits a set of generators is A-infinity-pretriangulated, that is to say, T is equivalent to H0twAH^0 tw A, where twAtw A is the A-infinity-category of twisted objets of a certain A-infinity-category A.

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@article{arxiv.math/0310337,
  title  = {Sur les A-infini cat\'egories},
  author = {Kenji Lefèvre-Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0310337},
  year   = {2007}
}

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230 pages, 11 figures, ph. D. thesis in french