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β-groupoid
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an β-groupoid is an abstract homotopical model for topological spaces. One model uses Kan complexes which are fibrant objects in the category (mathematics), category of simplicial sets (with the standard model category, model structure). It is an β-category generalization of a groupoid, a category in which every morphism is an isomorphism. The homotopy hypothesis states that β-groupoids are equivalent to spaces up to homotopy. Globular Groupoids Alexander Grothendieck suggested in ''Pursuing Stacks'' that there should be an extraordinarily simple model of β-groupoids using globular sets, originally called hemispherical complexes. These sets are constructed as Sheaf (mathematics)#Presheaves, presheaves on the globular category \mathbb. This is defined as the category whose objects are finite ordinals [n] and morphisms are given by \begin \sigma_n: [n] \to [n+1]\\ \tau_n: [n] \to [n+1] \end such that the globular relations hold \ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homotopy Hypothesis
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, Grothendieck's homotopy hypothesis states, homotopy theory speaking, that the β-groupoids are space (mathematics), spaces. One version of the hypothesis was claimed to be proved in the 1991 paper by Mikhail Kapranov, Kapranov and Vladimir Voevodsky, Voevodsky. Their proof turned out to be flawed and their result in the form interpreted by Carlos Simpson is now known as the Simpson conjecture. In higher category theory, one considers a space-valued presheaf instead of a presheaf (category theory), set-valued presheaf in ordinary category theory. In view of homotopy hypothesis, a space here can be taken to an β-groupoid. Formulations A precise formulation of the hypothesis very strongly depends on the definition of an β-groupoid. One definition is that, mimicking the ordinary category case, an β-groupoid is an β-category in which each morphism is invertible or equivalently its homotopy category of an β-category, homotopy cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pursuing Stacks
''Pursuing Stacks'' () is an influential 1983 mathematical manuscript by Alexander Grothendieck. It consists of a 12-page letter to Daniel Quillen followed by about 600 pages of research notes. The topic of the work is a generalized homotopy theory using higher category theory. The word "stacks" in the title refers to what are nowadays usually called " β-groupoids", one possible definition of which Grothendieck sketches in his manuscript. (The stacks of algebraic geometry, which also go back to Grothendieck, are not the focus of this manuscript.) Among the concepts introduced in the work are derivators and test categories. Some parts of the manuscript were later developed in: * * Overview of manuscript I. The letter to Daniel Quillen Pursuing stacks started out as a letter from Grothendieck to Daniel Quillen. In this letter he discusses Quillen's progress on the foundations for homotopy theory and remarked on the lack of progress since then. He remarks how some of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
β-category
In mathematics, more specifically category theory, a quasi-category (also called quasicategory, weak Kan complex, inner Kan complex, infinity category, β-category, Boardman complex, quategory) is a generalization of the notion of a Category (mathematics), category. The study of such generalizations is known as higher category theory. Overview Quasi-categories were introduced by . AndrΓ© Joyal has much advanced the study of quasi-categories showing that most of the usual basic category theory and some of the advanced notions and theorems have their analogues for quasi-categories. An elaborate treatise of the theory of quasi-categories has been expounded by . Quasi-categories are certain simplicial sets. Like ordinary categories, they contain objects (the 0-simplices of the simplicial set) and morphisms between these objects (1-simplices). But unlike categories, the composition of two morphisms need not be uniquely defined. All the morphisms that can serve as composition of tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |