Model structures on finite total orders (Q6102692)

The main result of this paper consists of an enumeration of all Quillen model structures on the finite total order \([n] = \{0<1<\dots<n\}\). This is an application of previous work of the authors on the theory of \(N_\infty\)-operads for cyclic groups of prime power order, along with new structural insights concerning extending choices of certain model structures on subcategories of \([n]\). The authors can also give the exact number of these model structures. Finally, it is shown that every model structure on \([n]\) can be obtained via a sequence of left and right Bousfield localizations starting at the trivial model structure, where only the isomorphisms are weak equivalences and all maps are fibrations and cofibrations.