A model structure on the category of A$_\infty$-categories with strict morphisms

Abstract

We prove that the category of (strictly unital) A$_\infty$-categories, linear over a commutative ring $R$, with strict A$_\infty$-morphisms has a cofibrantly generated model structure. In this model structure every object is fibrant and the cofibrant objects have cofibrant morphisms. As a consequence we prove that the semi-free A$_\infty$-categories (resp. resolutions) are cofibrant objects (resp. resolution) in this model structure.