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Smith Ideals of Operadic Algebras in Monoidal Model Categories

David White, Donald Yau

Abstract

Building upon Hovey's work on Smith ideals for monoids, we develop a homotopy theory of Smith ideals for general operads in a symmetric monoidal category. For a sufficiently nice stable monoidal model category and an operad satisfying a cofibrancy condition, we show that there is a Quillen equivalence between a model structure on Smith ideals and a model structure on algebra maps induced by the cokernel and the kernel. For symmetric spectra, this applies to the commutative operad and all Sigma-cofibrant operads. For chain complexes over a field of characteristic zero and the stable module category, this Quillen equivalence holds for all operads. This paper ends with a comparison between the semi-model category approach and the $\infty$-category approach to encoding the homotopy theory of algebras over Sigma-cofibrant operads that are not necessarily admissible.

Smith Ideals of Operadic Algebras in Monoidal Model Categories

Abstract

Building upon Hovey's work on Smith ideals for monoids, we develop a homotopy theory of Smith ideals for general operads in a symmetric monoidal category. For a sufficiently nice stable monoidal model category and an operad satisfying a cofibrancy condition, we show that there is a Quillen equivalence between a model structure on Smith ideals and a model structure on algebra maps induced by the cokernel and the kernel. For symmetric spectra, this applies to the commutative operad and all Sigma-cofibrant operads. For chain complexes over a field of characteristic zero and the stable module category, this Quillen equivalence holds for all operads. This paper ends with a comparison between the semi-model category approach and the -category approach to encoding the homotopy theory of algebras over Sigma-cofibrant operads that are not necessarily admissible.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 26 sections, 34 theorems, 66 equations.

Key Result

Theorem A

Suppose $\mathsf{M}$ is a sufficiently nice stable monoidal model category, and $\mathcal{O}$ is a $\mathfrak{C}$-colored operad in $\mathsf{M}$ such that cofibrant Smith $\mathcal{O}$-ideals are also entrywise cofibrant in the arrow category of $\mathsf{M}$ with the projective model structure. Then induced by the cokernel and the kernel.

Theorems & Definitions (104)

  • Theorem A
  • Definition 2.1.1
  • Definition 2.1.2
  • Definition 2.1.3
  • Definition 2.1.4
  • Definition 2.1.5
  • Definition 2.2.1
  • Definition 2.2.2
  • Theorem 2.3.1
  • proof
  • ...and 94 more