The 2-Localization of a Quillen's model category
Abstract
In [Homotopical Algebra, Springer LNM 43] Quillen introduces the notion of a model category: a category provided with three distinguished classes of maps (weak equivalences, fibrations, cofibrations), and gives a construction of the localization as the quotient of by the congruence relation determined by the homotopies on the sets of arrows . We develop here the 2-categorical localization, in which the 2-cells of this 2-localization are given by homotopies, and one can get the Quillen's localization when applying the connected components functor on the hom-categories of the 2-localization. Our proof is not just a generalization of the well-known Quillen's one. We work with definitions of cylinders and homotopies introduced in [M.E. Descotte, E.J. Dubuc, M. Szyld; Model bicategories and their homotopy bicategories, arXiv:1805.07749 (2018)] considering only a single family of arrows . When is the class of weak equivalences of a model category, we get the Quillen's results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2009.05390,
title = {The 2-Localization of a Quillen's model category},
author = {Jaqueline Girabel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.05390},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Degree thesis, advisor Eduardo Dubuc, in Spanish, many diagrams