A modern perspective on rational homotopy theory

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Autore principale: Chatzitheodoridis, Eleftherios
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contents In Quillen's paper on rational homotopy theory, the category of 1-reduced simplicial sets is endowed with a family of model structures, the most prominent of which is the one in which the weak equivalences are the rational homotopy equivalences and the fibrant objects are the rational Kan complexes. In this paper, we give a modern approach to this family of model structures. We recover Quillen's family of model structures by first left-transferring the model structure on pointed simplicial sets and then left Bousfield localizing at the rationalization maps of spheres. Applying this localization to the model category of all spaces yields a model category in which the weak equivalences are the rational homotopy equivalences in the extended sense of Gómez-Tato, Halperin, and Tanré and the fibrant objects are the rational spaces. Thus, we generalize Quillen's family of model structures beyond the rational homotopy theory of 1-connected spaces.
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spellingShingle A modern perspective on rational homotopy theory
Chatzitheodoridis, Eleftherios
Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
55P62 (Primary), 55P60, 55U10, 55U35, 18N55, 18N50, 18N40 (Secondary)
In Quillen's paper on rational homotopy theory, the category of 1-reduced simplicial sets is endowed with a family of model structures, the most prominent of which is the one in which the weak equivalences are the rational homotopy equivalences and the fibrant objects are the rational Kan complexes. In this paper, we give a modern approach to this family of model structures. We recover Quillen's family of model structures by first left-transferring the model structure on pointed simplicial sets and then left Bousfield localizing at the rationalization maps of spheres. Applying this localization to the model category of all spaces yields a model category in which the weak equivalences are the rational homotopy equivalences in the extended sense of Gómez-Tato, Halperin, and Tanré and the fibrant objects are the rational spaces. Thus, we generalize Quillen's family of model structures beyond the rational homotopy theory of 1-connected spaces.
title A modern perspective on rational homotopy theory
topic Algebraic Topology
Category Theory
55P62 (Primary), 55P60, 55U10, 55U35, 18N55, 18N50, 18N40 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23322