Homotopical algebra

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In mathematics, homotopical algebra is a collection of concepts comprising the nonabelian aspects of homological algebra as well as possibly the abelian aspects as special cases. The homotopical nomenclature stems from the fact that a common approach to such generalizations is via abstract homotopy theory and in particular the theory of closed model categories.

This subject has received much attention in recent years due to new foundational work of Voevodsky, Friedlander, Suslin, and others resulting in the A¹ homotopy theory for quasiprojective varieties over a field. Voevodsky has used this new algebraic homotopy theory to prove the Milnor conjecture (for which he was awarded the Fields Medal) and later, in collaboration with M. Rost, the full Bloch-Kato conjecture.

[edit] References

• Goerss, P. G.; Jardine, J. F. (1999), Simplicial Homotopy Theory, Progress in Mathematics, 174, Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, ISBN 978-3-7643-6064-1 
• Hovey, Mark (1999), Model categories, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-1359-1 
• Quillen, Daniel (1967), Homotopical Algebra, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-03914-5 

[edit] External links

• An abstract for a talk on the proof of the full Bloch-Kato conjecture