Flat model structures for accessible exact categories

Abstract

We develop techniques for constructing model structures on chain complexes valued in accessible exact categories, and apply this to show that for a closed symmetric monoidal, locally presentable exact category $\mathpzc{E}$ with exact filtered colimits and enough flat objects, the flat cotorsion pair on $\mathpzc{E}$ induces an exact model structure on $\mathrm{Ch}(\mathpzc{E})$. Further we show that when enriched over $\mathbb{Q}$ such categories furnish convenient settings for homotopical algebra - in particular that they are Homotopical Algebra Contexts, and admit powerful Koszul duality theorems. As an example, we consider categories of sheaves valued in monoidal locally presentable exact categories.