New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 23 (2017) 83-117

  

Philip Hackney, Marcy Robertson, and Donald Yau

Shrinkability, relative left properness, and derived base change

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Published: January 18, 2017
Keywords: Wheeled properads, operads, dioperads, model categories, left proper
Subject: 55U35, 18D50, 18G55, 55P48, 18D20

Abstract
For a connected pasting scheme G, under reasonable assumptions on the underlying category, the category of C-colored G-props admits a cofibrantly generated model category structure. In this paper, we show that, if G is closed under shrinking internal edges, then this model structure on G-props satisfies a (weaker version) of left properness. Connected pasting schemes satisfying this property include those for all connected wheeled graphs (for wheeled properads), wheeled trees (for wheeled operads), simply connected graphs (for dioperads), unital trees (for symmetric operads), and unitial linear graphs (for small categories). The pasting scheme for connected wheel-free graphs (for properads) does not satisfy this condition.

We furthermore prove, assuming G is shrinkable and our base categories are nice enough, that a weak symmetric monoidal Quillen equivalence between two base categories induces a Quillen equivalence between their categories of G-props. The final section gives illuminating examples that justify the conditions on base model categories.


Author information

Philip Hackney:
Matematiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Current Address: Department of Mathematics, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
hackney@math.su.se

Marcy Robertson:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
marcy.robertson@unimelb.edu.au

Donald Yau:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University at Newark, Newark, OH
dyau@math.osu.edu