A model category structure on the category of simplicial categories

Bergner, Julia

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-06-03987-0

A model category structure on the category of simplicial categories
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Abstract:

In this paper we put a cofibrantly generated model category structure on the category of small simplicial categories. The weak equivalences are a simplicial analogue of the notion of equivalence of categories.

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