On equivariant homotopy theory for model categories

Marc Stephan

Homology, homotopy, and applications, Tome 18 (2016) no. 2, pp. 183-208.

Résumé

We introduce and compare two approaches to equivariant homotopy theory in a topological or ordinary Quillen model category. For the topological model category of spaces, we generalize Piacenza’s result that the categories of topological presheaves indexed by the orbit category of a fixed topological group $G$ and the category of $G$-spaces can be endowed with Quillen equivalent model category structures.We prove an analogous result for any cofibrantly generated model category and discrete group $G$, under certain conditions on the fixed point functors of the subgroups of $G$. These conditions hold in many examples, though not in the category of chain complexes, where we nevertheless establish and generalize to collections an equivariant Whitehead Theorem à la Kropholler and Wall for the normalized chain complexes of simplicial $G$-sets.

Détail

DOI : 10.4310/HHA.2016.v18.n2.a10

Classification : 18G55, 20J99, 55P91
Keywords: equivariant homotopy theory, model category, orbit category