Some characterizations of acyclic maps

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Authors George Raptis

Publication date 19 September 2019

Published in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08898

zbMATH Keywords

acyclic mapmodalityplus construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topoi (18B25) Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35)

Abstract: We discuss two categorical characterizations of the class of acyclic maps between (path-connected) spaces. The first one is in terms of the higher categorical notion of an epimorphism. The second one employs the notion of a balanced map, that is, a map whose homotopy pullbacks define also homotopy pushouts. We also identify the modality in the homotopy theory of spaces that is defined by the class of acyclic maps, and discuss the content of the generalized Blakers-Massey theorem for this modality.

Review text

In this paper, the author shows in Section 2 two categorical characterizations of the class of acyclic maps between spaces, that is, maps whose homotopy fibers are acyclic spaces. The first characterization states that a map is acyclic if, and only if, it is an epimorphism, this last notion being the categorical dual of the notion of monomorphism as defined in higher category theory, cf. [\textit{J. Lurie}, Higher topos theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2009; Zbl 1175.18001)]. The second characterization states that a map is acyclic if, and only if, it is balanced. This notion of balanced map is motivated by a well-known property of acyclic maps, and it is defined by demanding that maps whose homotopy pullbacks along \(\pi_0\)-surjective maps define also homotopy pushouts. Finally, Section 3 of the paper is devoted to identifying the modality (see [\textit{M. Anel}, \textit{G. Biedermann}, \textit{E. Finster} and \textit{A. Joyal}, ``A generalized Blakers-Massey theorem, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1703.09050}]) in the homotopy theory of spaces defined by the class of acyclic maps, and Blakers-Massey theorems associated with this modality are then discussed.

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