Groupoid Enriched Categories and Homotopy Theory

Fantham, P. H. H. ; Moore, E. J.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 35 (1983) no. 3, pp. 385-416

Résumé

We are concerned in this paper with category-theoretic aspects of homotopy theory. Originally, category theory developed as a simplifying language in the context of algebraic topology and yet one primary example: the category Π of spaces and homotopy classes of maps admits only limited use of the language owing to the very sparse occurrence of limits. Of course, full use has been made of them nevertheless: limits and colimits exist in the case of products and coproducts, and in almost no other case; yet, from this we obtain the theory of Samelson products, Whitehead products, and Hopf invariants which can all be expressed in Π see [8]. In addition, there are hosts of adjoint functors and yet the outcome is disappointing because the language applies only to special cases rather than to the situation as a whole.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1983-022-8

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