Model category structures on multicomplexes

Abstract

We present a family of model structures on the category of multicomplexes. There is a cofibrantly generated model structure in which the weak equivalences are the morphisms inducing an isomorphism at a fixed stage of an associated spectral sequence. Corresponding model structures are given for truncated versions of multicomplexes, interpolating between bicomplexes and multicomplexes. For a fixed stage of the spectral sequence, the model structures on all these categories are shown to be Quillen equivalent.

23 pages v2: minor changes, accepted version to appear in special issue of Topology and its Applications dedicated to proceedings of the Women in Topology 3 workshop