scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1746905
The authors generalize the concepts of suspension and loop space from the classical context of homotopy theory in the general setting of track categories (groupoid enriched categories). They define the notion of suspender and its categorical dual, looper. A track category \(\mathcal{T}\) is \(\Sigma\)-representable, resp. \(\Omega\)-representable, if suspenders, resp. loopers exist in \(\mathcal{T}\). For a cofibration category in the sense of the first author [\textit{H. J. Baues}, ``Algebraic homotopy, Camb. Stud. Adv. Math. 15 (1989; Zbl 0688.55001)], the full subcategory of cofibrant and fibrant objects, which is a track category, is proved to be \(\Sigma\)-representable. As a corollary, the track category of cofibrant and fibrant objects in a Quillen model category [\textit{D. G. Quillen}, ``Homotopical algebra, Lect. Notes Math. 43 (1967; Zbl 0168.20903)] is \(\Sigma\)-representable and \(\Omega\)-representable. Functorial properties, a kind of uniqueness, and compatibility with sums are also given for suspenders. Finally, they show that in a track theory (track category with finite sums), the suspender of a map splits as a coproduct if the domain of the map has the structure of a principal quasi-coaction (a weaker notion of principal coaction) in the homotopy category. This paper is followed by \textit{H.-J. Baues} and \textit{M. Jibladze} [``Suspension and loop objects in theories and cohomology, Georgian Math. J. 8, No. 4, 697-712 (2001; Zbl 1011.18003)].
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