The Euler Characteristic of an Enriched Category
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چکیده
We develop the homotopy theory of Euler characteristic (magnitude) of a category enriched in a monoidal model category. If a monoidal model category V is equipped with an Euler characteristic that is compatible with weak equivalences and fibrations in V, then our Euler characteristic of V-enriched categories is also compatible with weak equivalences and fibrations in the canonical model structure on the category of V-enriched categories. In particular, we focus on the case of topological categories; i.e., categories enriched in the category of topological spaces. As its application, we obtain the ordinary Euler characteristic of a cellular stratified space X by computing the Euler characteristic of the face category C(X).
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