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Homotopy Languages

Category Theory 2025-10-06 v1 Algebraic Topology Logic

Abstract

We attach to each weak model category M\mathcal{M} a class of first order formulas about the fibrant objects of M\mathcal{M} whose validity is invariant under homotopies and weak equivalences. This is a generalization of the classical Blanc-Freyd Language of categories -- which involves formula avoiding equality on objects and which are invariant under isomorphism and equivalences of categories. In particular, we obtain similar homotopy invariant languages for 22-categories, bicategories, chain complexes, Kan complexes, quasi-categories, Segal spaces, and so on...

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@article{arxiv.2510.02607,
  title  = {Homotopy Languages},
  author = {César Bardomiano Martínez and Simon Henry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.02607},
  year   = {2025}
}

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157 pages

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