The homotopy category of N-complexes is a homotopy category

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Abstract: We show that the category of N-complexes has a Strom model structure, meaning the weak equivalences are the chain homotopy equivalences. This generalizes the analogous result for the category of chain complexes (N = 2). The trivial objects in the model structure are the contractible N-complexes which we necessarily study and derive several results.


Let \(N\) be an integer such that \(N\geq 2\). In this paper an \(N\)-complex is a graded module with an endomorphism \(d\) of degree \(-1\) such that the iterated composite \(d^N\) is equal to \(0\); thus, in particular, \(2\)-complexes are the same as chain complexes. On chain complexes there is a projective model structure in which the weak equivalences are the homology isomorphisms, and there is a Strøm type model structure in which the weak equivalences are the chain homotopy equivalences. The projective model structure has been extended to \(N\)-complexes for all \(N\geq 2\). In the present paper the Strøm type model structure is similarly extended to \(N\)-complexes for all \(N\geq 2\).











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