Elements of [infinity]-category theory:

The language of ∞-categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher-dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. To explain what exactly an ∞-category is requires various technical models, raising the question of how they might be compared. To over...

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Main Authors: Riehl, Emily 1983- (Author), Verity, Dominic 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2022
Series:Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
194
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Summary:The language of ∞-categories provides an insightful new way of expressing many results in higher-dimensional mathematics but can be challenging for the uninitiated. To explain what exactly an ∞-category is requires various technical models, raising the question of how they might be compared. To overcome this, a model-independent approach is desired, so that theorems proven with any model would apply to them all. This text develops the theory of ∞-categories from first principles in a model-independent fashion using the axiomatic framework of an ∞-cosmos, the universe in which ∞-categories live as objects. An ∞-cosmos is a fertile setting for the formal category theory of ∞-categories, and in this way the foundational proofs in ∞-category theory closely resemble the classical foundations of ordinary category theory. Equipped with exercises and appendices with background material, this first introduction is meant for students and researchers who have a strong foundation in classical 1-category theory
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[Infinity]-Cosmoi and their homotopy 2-categories -- Adjunctions, limits, and colimits I -- Comma [infinity]-categories -- Adjunctions, limits, and colimits II -- Fibrations and Yoneda's lemma -- Exotic [infinity]-cosmoi -- Two-sided fibrations and modules -- The calculus of modules -- Formal category theory in a virtual equipment -- Change-of-model functors -- Model independence -- Applications of model independence
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 759 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108936880
DOI:10.1017/9781108936880