Doctoral Course in Mathematics
Winter Semester 2003/04
Prof. Kathryn Hess Bellwald
SB-IMA
Model category theory, first developed in the late 1960's by Quillen,
has become very popular among algebraic topologists and algebraic
geometers in the past decade. A model category is a category
endowed with three distinguished classes of morphisms -- fibrations,
cofibrations and weak equivalences-- satisfying axioms that
are properties of the topological category and its usual fibrations,
cofibrations and weak equivalences. In any model category there
is a notion of homotopy of morphisms, based on the definition
of homotopy of continuous maps.
The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction
to model category theory, complete with numerous examples of model
categories and their applications in algebra and topology.
Complete reference details for Hirschhorn's book just
added to bibliography!
Starting date: October 23, 2003
Schedule: Thursdays, from 8:30 to 11:00
Room: MA/30 (EXCEPT 11.12.03 and
08.01.04, when we will be in CM100.)
Course Outline (will evolve as the semester progresses... :-) )
I. Introduction
A. The goals of homotopical algebra
B. The homotopy theory of topological spaces
C. Basic category theory
II. Elementary model category theory
A. Definition, examples and properties of model categories
B. The homotopy relation in a model category
C. The homotopy category of a model category
D. Derived functors, Quillen pairs and Quillen equivalences
E. The category of simplicial sets
III. Model categories with further structure
A. Cofibrantly generated model categories
B. Created structures
C. Monoidal model categories
E.B. Curtis, Simplicial homotopy
theory, Advances in Math. 6 (1971) 107-209.
W.G. Dwyer, P. Hirschhorn, D. Kan and J. Smith, Homotopy Limit Functors on Model Categories and Homotopical Categories, preprint. (Can be downloaded here)
W.G. Dwyer and J. Spalinski, Homotopy theories and model
categories, Handbook of Algebraic Topology, Elsevier, 1995, 73-126. (Article
no. 75 here)
Y. Félix, S. Halperin, and J.-C. Thomas, Rational Homotopy Theory, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 205, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
P.G. Goerss and J.F. Jardine, Simplicial Homotopy Theory, Progress in Mathematics 174, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999.
Philipp S. Hirschhorn, Model Categories
and their Localizations, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 99, American Mathematical Society, 2003.
K. Hess, Model categories in algebraic topology, Applied Categorical Structures 10 (2002) 195-220. (Download)
M. Hovey, Model Categories, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 63, American Mathematical Society, 1999.
A. Joyal and M. Tierney, Strong stacks and classifying spaces, Category Theory (Como, 1990), Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1488, Springer-Verlag, 1991, 213-236.
J.P. May, Simplicial Objects in Algebraic Topology, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Série 1 Série 2 Série 3 Série 4 Série 5 Série 6 Série 7 Série 8 Série 9 Série 10 Série 11 Série 11
Définition d'une catégorie modèle
Factorisation de morphismes de complexes de chaînes