Grothendieck's homotopy hypothesis for infinity-groupoids

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Let Hot\mathsf{Hot} be the homotopy category of topological spaces, let CC be a coherator, and let Π∞‾\overline{\Pi_\infty} be the functor induced by the fundamental infinity-groupoid functor from topological spaces to Grothendieck infinity-groupoids of type CC, after localization at weak equivalences.

Grothendieck's conjecture. The functor Π∞‾\overline{\Pi_\infty} is an equivalence of categories.

This is Grothendieck's homotopy hypothesis, asserting that Grothendieck infinity-groupoids provide an algebraic model for homotopy types. The precise formulation depends on a coherator and the corresponding notion of weak equivalence; the source presents the assertion as a conjecture.

References

Primary source

Dimitri Ara, “On the homotopy theory of Grothendieck -groupoids”, arXiv:1206.2941 (2012).

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RemarkAI-assistedClaimed by OpenAI. Claims the Grothendieck homotopy hypothesis for every Grothendieck coherator in the Ara–Henry convention and Henry's elementary-expansion pushout conjecture.See full solutionHide full solution

Claimed by OpenAI. Claims the Grothendieck homotopy hypothesis for every Grothendieck coherator in the Ara–Henry convention and Henry's elementary-expansion pushout conjecture.

Scope relative to this problem: The claimed homotopy-category equivalence is for every Grothendieck coherator in the Ara-Henry infinity-groupoid convention and its stated weak equivalences, with the elementary-expansion pushout assertion. It does not claim Quillen equivalences for all weak (infinity,m)-categories at m>0 or every alternative coherator/model convention.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/openai/math

Manuscript: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/adc7f1241b42e322a6451854ab7e4b4c146bf78a/preprints/The-Grothendieck-homotopy-hypothesis-via-elementary-expansions-September-24-2026/paper.pdf

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