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Model Categories and Quillen Functors
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What is a model category?
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A category with a notion of weak equivalences, fibrations, and cofibrations.
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A model category is a category with a notion of weak equivalences, fibrations, and cofibrations. These notions are used to define a notion of homotopy category, which is a category that is equivalent to the original category in terms of its homotopy type.