Our goal in this paper is to prove an equivalence between the model categorical
approach to pro-categories, as studied by Isaksen, Schlank and the first author, and the
–categorical
approach, as developed by Lurie. Three applications of our main result are described. In the
first application we use (a dual version of) our main result to give sufficient conditions on an
–combinatorial
model category, which insure that its underlying
–category is
–presentable.
In the second application we show that the topological realization of any
Grothendieck topos coincides with the shape of the hypercompletion of the associated
–topos.
In the third application we show that several model categories
arising in profinite homotopy theory are indeed models for the
–category
of profinite spaces. As a byproduct we obtain new Quillen equivalences between these
models, and also obtain an example which settles negatively a question raised by G
Raptis.
Keywords
pro-categories, model categories, infinity-categories,
étale homotopy type, profinite completion