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The 2-Localization of a Quillen's model category

Category Theory 2020-09-14 v1

Abstract

In [Homotopical Algebra, Springer LNM 43] Quillen introduces the notion of a model category: a category C\mathcal{C} provided with three distinguished classes of maps {W,F,coF}\{\mathcal{W},\, \mathcal{F},\, co\mathcal{F}\} (weak equivalences, fibrations, cofibrations), and gives a construction of the localization C[W1]\mathcal{C}[\mathcal{W}^{-1}] as the quotient of C\mathcal{C} by the congruence relation determined by the homotopies on the sets of arrows C(X,Y)\mathcal{C}(X,\,Y). 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 π0\pi_0 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 Σ\Sigma. When Σ\Sigma is the class W\mathcal{W} of weak equivalences of a model category, we get the Quillen's results.

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@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}
}

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Degree thesis, advisor Eduardo Dubuc, in Spanish, many diagrams