Weak complicial sets, a simplicial weak omega-category theory. Part I: basic homotopy theory

dc.creatorVerity, Dominic
dc.date2006-04-19
dc.date2006-07-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:11:04Z
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dc.descriptionThis paper develops the foundations of a simplicial theory of weak omega-categories, which builds upon the insights originally expounded by Ross Street in his 1987 paper on oriented simplices. The resulting theory of weak complicial sets provides a common generalisation of the theories of (strict) omega-categories, Kan complexes and Joyal's quasi-categories. We generalise a number of results due to the current author with regard to complicial sets and strict omega-categories to provide an armoury of well behaved technical devices, such as joins and Gray tensor products, which will be used to study these the weak omega-category theory of these structures in a series of companion papers. In particular, we establish their basic homotopy theory by constructing a Quillen model structure on the category of stratified simplicial sets whose fibrant objects are the weak complicial sets. As a simple corollary of this work we provide an independent construction of Joyal's model structure on simplicial sets for which the fibrant objects are the quasi-categories.
dc.description65 pages, further updates to the material on quasi-categories, minor corrections
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604414
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604414
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/111618
dc.subjectCategory Theory
dc.subjectAlgebraic Topology
dc.subject18D05, 55U10 (Primary) 18D15, 18D20, 18D35, 18F99, 18G30 (Secondary)
dc.titleWeak complicial sets, a simplicial weak omega-category theory. Part I: basic homotopy theory
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