Monday, October 18 |
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Rick Jardine (Western) Title: "Dynamical systems and diagrams" Room: MC 107 Abstract: A dynamical system is a map of spaces $X \times S \to X$, and a map of dynamical systems $X \to Y$ over $S$ is an $S$-equivariant map. There is both an injective and a projective model structure for this category. These model structures are special cases of injective and projective model structures for space-valued diagrams $X$ defined on a fixed category $A$ enriched in simplicial sets. Simultaneously varying the parameter category $A$ (or parameter space $S$) along with the diagrams $X$ up to weak equivalence is more interesting, and requires new model structures for $A$-diagrams having weak equivalences defined by homotopy colimits, as well as a generalization of Thomason's model structure for small categories to a model structure for simplicial categories. |
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