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Homotopy theory of higher categories /

"The study of higher categories is attracting growing interest for its many applications in topology, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics and category theory. In this highly readable book, Carlos Simpson develops a full set of homotopical algebra techniques and proposes a working theory of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simpson, Carlos, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:New mathematical monographs ; 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Higher Categories: 1. History and motivation; 2. Strict n-categories; 3. Fundamental elements of n-categories; 4. Operadic approaches; 5. Simplicial approaches; 6. Weak enrichment over a cartesian model category: an introduction
  • Part II. Categorical Preliminaries: 7. Model categories; 8. Cell complexes in locally presentable categories; 9. Direct left Bousfield localization
  • Part III. Generators and Relations: 10. Precategories; 11. Algebraic theories in model categories; 12. Weak equivalences; 13. Cofibrations; 14. Calculus of generators and relations; 15. Generators and relations for Segal categories
  • Part IV. The Model Structure: 186 Sequentially free precategories; 17. Products; 18. Intervals; 19. The model category of M-enriched precategories
  • Part V. Higher Category Theory: 20. Iterated higher categories; 21. Higher categorical techniques; 22. Limits of weak enriched categories; 23. Stabilization.