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Author: Jacob Lurie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-07-26
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13: 0691140480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Higher Topos Theory', Jacob Lurie presents the foundations of this theory using the language of weak Kan complexes introduced by Boardman and Vogt, and shows how existing theorems in algebraic topology can be reformulated and generalized in the theory's new language.
Author: Saunders Mac Lane
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1475747217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from the foundations, this book illuminates the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. It then turns to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representations of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. These categorical concepts are extensively illustrated in the remaining chapters, which include many applications of the basic existence theorem for adjoint functors. The categories of algebraic systems are constructed from certain adjoint-like data and characterised by Beck's theorem. After considering a variety of applications, the book continues with the construction and exploitation of Kan extensions. This second edition includes a number of revisions and additions, including new chapters on topics of active interest: symmetric monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories, and the coherence theorems for them, as well as 2-categories and the higher dimensional categories which have recently come into prominence.
Author: Carlos Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 1139502190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of higher categories is attracting growing interest for its many applications in topology, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics and category theory. In this highly readable book, Carlos Simpson develops a full set of homotopical algebra techniques and proposes a working theory of higher categories. Starting with a cohesive overview of the many different approaches currently used by researchers, the author proceeds with a detailed exposition of one of the most widely used techniques: the construction of a Cartesian Quillen model structure for higher categories. The fully iterative construction applies to enrichment over any Cartesian model category, and yields model categories for weakly associative n-categories and Segal n-categories. A corollary is the construction of higher functor categories which fit together to form the (n+1)-category of n-categories. The approach uses Tamsamani's definition based on Segal's ideas, iterated as in Pelissier's thesis using modern techniques due to Barwick, Bergner, Lurie and others.
Author: Tom Leinster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-22
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0521532159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFoundations of higher dimensional category theory for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics.
Author: Denis-Charles Cisinski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1108473202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt last, a friendly introduction to modern homotopy theory after Joyal and Lurie, reaching advanced tools and starting from scratch.
Author: Ezra Getzler
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0821810561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises six presentations on new developments in category theory from the March 1997 workshop. The topics are categorification, computads for finitary monads on globular sets, braided n- categories and a-structures, categories of vector bundles and Yang- Mills equations, the role of Michael Batanin's monoidal globular categories, and braided deformations of monoidal categories and Vassiliev invariants. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Tom Leinster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1107044243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short introduction ideal for students learning category theory for the first time.
Author: John C. Baez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-09-24
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1441915362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this book is to give background for those who would like to delve into some higher category theory. It is not a primer on higher category theory itself. It begins with a paper by John Baez and Michael Shulman which explores informally, by analogy and direct connection, how cohomology and other tools of algebraic topology are seen through the eyes of n-category theory. The idea is to give some of the motivations behind this subject. There are then two survey articles, by Julie Bergner and Simona Paoli, about (infinity,1) categories and about the algebraic modelling of homotopy n-types. These are areas that are particularly well understood, and where a fully integrated theory exists. The main focus of the book is on the richness to be found in the theory of bicategories, which gives the essential starting point towards the understanding of higher categorical structures. An article by Stephen Lack gives a thorough, but informal, guide to this theory. A paper by Larry Breen on the theory of gerbes shows how such categorical structures appear in differential geometry. This book is dedicated to Max Kelly, the founder of the Australian school of category theory, and an historical paper by Ross Street describes its development.
Author: Emily Riehl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 782
ISBN-13: 1108952194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Emily Riehl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-05-26
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1139952633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops abstract homotopy theory from the categorical perspective with a particular focus on examples. Part I discusses two competing perspectives by which one typically first encounters homotopy (co)limits: either as derived functors definable when the appropriate diagram categories admit a compatible model structure, or through particular formulae that give the right notion in certain examples. Emily Riehl unifies these seemingly rival perspectives and demonstrates that model structures on diagram categories are irrelevant. Homotopy (co)limits are explained to be a special case of weighted (co)limits, a foundational topic in enriched category theory. In Part II, Riehl further examines this topic, separating categorical arguments from homotopical ones. Part III treats the most ubiquitous axiomatic framework for homotopy theory - Quillen's model categories. Here, Riehl simplifies familiar model categorical lemmas and definitions by focusing on weak factorization systems. Part IV introduces quasi-categories and homotopy coherence.
