Algebraic model structures

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Abstract: We define a new notion of an algebraic model structure, in which the cofibrations and fibrations are retracts of coalgebras for comonads and algebras for monads, and prove "algebraic" analogs of classical results. Using a modified version of Quillen's small object argument, we show that every cofibrantly generated model structure in the usual sense underlies a cofibrantly generated algebraic model structure. We show how to pass a cofibrantly generated algebraic model structure across an adjunction, and we characterize the algebraic Quillen adjunction that results. We prove that pointwise natural weak factorization systems on diagram categories are cofibrantly generated if the original ones are, and we give an algebraic generalization of the projective model structure. Finally, we prove that certain fundamental comparison maps present in any cofibrantly generated model category are cofibrations when the cofibrations are monomorphisms, a conclusion that does not seem to be provable in the classical, non-algebraic, theory.


By an algebraic model structure on a category, the author means a model structure built out of algebraic or natural weak factorisation systems. That is to say, the cofibrations and fibrations are retracts of coalgebras for comonads and of algebras for monads. It is shown that every cofibrantly generated model structure underlies a cofibrantly generated algebraic model structure. A cofibrantly generated algebraic model structure can be passed across an adjunction to produce an algebraic Quillen adjunction. Pointwise algebraic weak factorisation systems on diagram categories which are generated by cofibrantly generated algebraic weak factorisation systems are also cofibrantly generated, and there is an algebraic generalisation of the projective model structure on diagram categories. If an algebraic model category is cofibrantly generated and its cofibrations are monomorphisms, then the natural comparison map between the algebraic weak factorisation systems consists of pointwise cofibration coalgebras.




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