A model for the homotopy theory of homotopy theory

Rezk, Charles

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02653-2

A model for the homotopy theory of homotopy theory
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by Charles Rezk

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), 973-1007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-00-02653-2

Published electronically: June 20, 2000

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Abstract:

We describe a category, the objects of which may be viewed as models for homotopy theories. We show that for such models, “functors between two homotopy theories form a homotopy theory”, or more precisely that the category of such models has a well-behaved internal hom-object.

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