Title: A characterization of fibrant Segal categories Author: Julia E. Bergner Author's email address: bergnerj@member.ams.org AMS Classification: 55U35, 18G30 arXiv submission number: math.AT/0603400 Author's address: Kansas State University 138 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, KS 66506 Abstract: In this note we prove that Reedy fibrant Segal categories are fibrant objects in the model category structure Secat_c. Combining this result with a previous one, we thus have that the fibrant objects are precisely the Reedy fibrant Segal categories. We also show that the analogous result holds for Segal categories which are fibrant in the projective model structure on simplicial spaces, considered as objects in the model structure Secat_f.