A new model of dg-categories

Abstract

In this article, we develop a new model for the category of dg-categories. Following Rezk's example in the case of classic Segal spaces, we define dg-Segal spaces: functors between free dg-categories of finite type and simplicial spaces to which we add certain properties. We define also complete dg-Segal spaces, and make their relationship to classic Segal spaces explicit. With the help of two new hypercover constructions, and up to a certain hypothesis, we prove that there exists an equivalence between the homotopy category of dg-categories and the homotopy category of functors defined above with a model structure making the complete dg-Segal spaces into its fibrant objects.Comment: 41 page