Universal Homotopy Theories

Abstract Begin with a small category C . The goal of this short note is to point out that there is such a thing as a “universal model category built from C .” We describe applications of this to the study of homotopy colimits, the Dwyer–Kan theory of framings, sheaf theory, and the homotopy theory of schemes.

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