diff -r 42ca1dee3441 -r 0387384c9acd text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Fri Oct 16 23:45:27 2009 +0000 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sun Oct 18 23:54:43 2009 +0000 @@ -242,6 +242,14 @@ For the moment, I'll assume that all flavors of the product are at our disposal, and I'll plan on revising the axioms later.} +\nn{current idea for fixing this: make the above axiom a ``preliminary version" +(as we have already done with some of the other axioms), then state the official +axiom for maps $\pi: E \to X$ which are almost fiber bundles. +one option is to restrict E to be a (full/half/not)-pinched product (up to homeo). +the alternative is to give some sort of local criterion for what's allowed. +state a gluing axiom for decomps $E = E'\cup E''$ where all three are of the correct type. +} + All of the axioms listed above hold for both ordinary $n$-categories and $A_\infty$ $n$-categories. The last axiom (below), concerning actions of homeomorphisms in the top dimension $n$, distinguishes the two cases.