A model structure on the category of small categories for coverings

MaRDI QIDQ2839628zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kohei Tanaka

Publication date 12 July 2013

Published in Mathematical Journal of Okayama University (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5339

zbMATH Keywords

coveringgroupoidmodel categorysmall category1-type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract and axiomatic homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55U35) Special properties of functors (faithful, full, etc.) (18A22)

Abstract: We define a new model structure on the category of small categories, which is intimately related to the notion of coverings and fundamental groups of small categories. Fibrant objects in the model structure coincide with groupoids, and the fibrant replacement is the groupoidification.

Recommendations

• A model category structure on the category of simplicial categories
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 769620
• Model structure on the category of small topological categories
• Model structures on the category of small double categories
• A Thomason model structure on the category of small \(n\)-fold categories

Cited in

(9)

• Small presentations of model categories and Vopěnka's principle
• Coverings of complexes of groups and developability
• Locally constant functors
• Small cycle double covers of products. II: Categorical and strong products with paths and cycles
• Homotopy theory of small diagrams over large categories
• Symmetric topological complexity for finite spaces and classifying spaces
• Group actions on posets
• A new spectral sequence for homology of posets
• Simple homotopy theory and nerve theorem for categories

This page was built for publication: A model structure on the category of small categories for coverings

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2839628)