A model structure on the category of small categories for coverings

zbMATH Open1284.18033arXiv0907.5339MaRDI QIDQ2839628FDOQ2839628

Authors: Kohei Tanaka 

Publication date: 12 July 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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