A projective model structure on pro-simplicial sheaves, and the relative étale homotopy type

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Abstract: In this work we shall introduce a new model structure on the category of pro-simplicial sheaves, which is very convenient for the study of 'etale homotopy. Using this model structure we define a pro-space associated to a topos, as a result of applying a derived functor. We show that our construction lifts Artin and Mazur's 'etale homotopy type [AM] in the relevant special case. Our definition extends naturally to a relative notion, namely, a pro-object associated to a map of topoi. This relative notion lifts the relative 'etale homotopy type that was used in [HaSc] for the study of obstructions to the existence of rational points. This relative notion enables to generalize these homotopical obstructions from fields to general base schemas and general maps of topoi. Our model structure is constructed using a general theorem that we prove. Namely, we introduce a much weaker structure than a model category, which we call a "weak fibration category". Our theorem says that a weak fibration category can be "completed" into a full model category structure on its pro-category, provided it satisfies some additional technical requirements. Our model structure is obtained by applying this result to the weak fibration category of simplicial sheaves over a Grothendieck site, where the weak equivalences and the fibrations are local in the sense of Jardine [Jar].


The authors introduce a notion of weak fibration category, a category with classes of fibrations and weak equivalences satisfying suitable axioms. Subject to certain additional requirements, they obtain a model structure on the pro-category of a weak fibration category. In particular they obtain a model structure on the category of pro-simplicial sheaves on a small Grothendieck site. From this, by using derived functors, they obtain a definition for étale homotopy types. They also obtain liftings of relative étale homotopy types by constructing pro-objects associated to maps of topoi.



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