Model category of diffeological spaces

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Abstract: The existence of a model structure on the category mathcalD of diffeological spaces is crucial to developing smooth homotopy theory. We construct a compactly generated model structure on the category mathcalD whose weak equivalences are just smooth maps inducing isomorphisms on smooth homotopy groups. The essential part of our construction of the model structure on mathcalD is to introduce diffeologies on the sets Deltap (pgeq0) such that Deltap contains the kth horn Lambdakp as a smooth deformation retract.


A diffeological space is a set with some collection of set-theoretical maps from open subset of \({\mathbb R} ^n\) that satisfy some axioms that allow to think about these maps as smooth parametrizations. The author constructs a compactly generated model structure on the category of diffeological spaces. The weak equivalences in this model structure are smooth maps inducing isomorphisms on smooth homotopy groups. However, his diffeology on simplices makes all smooth singular simplicial complexes fibrant objects and it seems that the author does not use the standard smooth homotopy groups. Another approach to the problem of existence of a good model structure on the category of diffeological spaces has been proposed by \textit{T. Haraguchi} and \textit{K. Shimakawa} [A model structure on the category of diffeological spaces. I. Preprint, \url{arXiv:2011.12842}].











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