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In this article, we develop a new model for the category of dg-categories. Following Rezk's example in the case of classic Segal spaces, we define dg-Segal spaces: functors between free dg-categories of finite type and simplicial spaces to…
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The description of algebraic structure of n-fold loop spaces can be done either using the formalism of topological operads, or using variations of Segal's $\Gamma$-spaces. The formalism of topological operads generalises well to different…
In this paper we give a summary of the comparisons between different definitions of so-called (\infty,1)-categories, which are considered to be models for \infty-categories whose n-morphisms are all invertible for n>1. They are also, from…
We develop a theory of enriched categories over a (higher) category M equipped with a class W of morphisms called homotopy equivalences. We call them Segal M_W -categories. Our motivation was to generalize the notion of "up-to-homotopy…
Given a family of model categories $\cal E \to \cal C$, we associate to it a homotopical category of derived, or Segal, sections $DSect(\cal C,\cal E)$ that models the higher-categorical sections of the localisation $L\cal E \to \cal C$.…
Based on a Whitehead-type characterization of the sectional category we develop the notion of weak sectional category. This is a new lower bound of the sectional category, which is inspired by the notion of weak category in the sense of…
We introduce \emph{flagged $(\infty,n)$-categories} and prove that they are equivalent to Segal sheaves on Joyal's category ${\mathbf\Theta}_n$. As such, flagged $(\infty,n)$-categories provide a model-independent formulation of Segal…
This document is centered around a main idea: simplicial categories, by which we mean simplicial objects in the category of categories, can be treated as a two-fold categorical structure and their double category theory is homotopically…
We develop a graphical calculus of manifold diagrams which generalises string and surface diagrams to arbitrary dimensions. Manifold diagrams are pasting diagrams for $(\infty, n)$-categories that admit a semi-strict composition operation…
In this document, we develop a new model for the category of dg-categories. Following Rezk's example in the case of classic Segal spaces, we define dg-Segal spaces: functors between free dg-categories of finite type and simplicial spaces to…