diff -r 2a8aecc675c7 -r 0e71da01b195 text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Sun Feb 21 22:49:18 2010 +0000 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sun Feb 21 23:27:38 2010 +0000 @@ -1111,9 +1111,17 @@ (For $n=1$ they are precisely bimodules in the usual, uncategorified sense.) Define a 0-marked $k$-ball $(X, M)$, $1\le k \le n$, to be a pair homeomorphic to the standard $(B^k, B^{k-1})$, where $B^{k-1}$ is properly embedded in $B^k$. -See Figure xxxx. +See Figure \ref{feb21a}. Another way to say this is that $(X, M)$ is homeomorphic to $B^{k-1}\times([-1,1], \{0\})$. +\begin{figure}[!ht] +\begin{equation*} +\mathfig{.85}{tempkw/feb21a} +\end{equation*} +\caption{0-marked 1-ball and 0-marked 2-ball} +\label{feb21a} +\end{figure} + 0-marked balls can be cut into smaller balls in various ways. These smaller balls could be 0-marked or plain. We can also take the boundary of a 0-marked ball, which is 0-marked sphere. @@ -1146,20 +1154,36 @@ \] The product is pinched over the boundary of $J$. $\cD$ breaks into ``blocks" according to the restrictions to the pinched points of $X\times J$ -(see Figure xxxx). +(see Figure \ref{feb21b}). These restrictions are 0-morphisms $(a, b)$ of $\cA$ and $\cB$. +\begin{figure}[!ht] +\begin{equation*} +\mathfig{1}{tempkw/feb21b} +\end{equation*} +\caption{The pinched product $X\times J$} +\label{feb21b} +\end{figure} + More generally, consider an interval with interior marked points, and with the complements of these points labeled by $n$-categories $\cA_i$ ($0\le i\le l$) and the marked points labeled by $\cA_i$-$\cA_{i+1}$ bimodules $\cM_i$. -(See Figure xxxx.) +(See Figure \ref{feb21c}.) To this data we can apply to coend construction as in Subsection \ref{moddecss} above to obtain an $\cA_0$-$\cA_l$ bimodule and, forgetfully, an $n{-}1$-category. This amounts to a definition of taking tensor products of bimodules over $n$-categories. +\begin{figure}[!ht] +\begin{equation*} +\mathfig{1}{tempkw/feb21c} +\end{equation*} +\caption{Marked and labeled 1-manifolds} +\label{feb21c} +\end{figure} + We could also similarly mark and label a circle, obtaining an $n{-}1$-category associated to the marked and labeled circle. -(See Figure xxxx.) +(See Figure \ref{feb21c}.) If the circle is divided into two intervals, we can think of this $n{-}1$-category as the 2-ended tensor product of the two bimodules associated to the two intervals. @@ -1171,7 +1195,7 @@ Equivalently, we can define 1-sphere modules in terms of 1-marked $k$-balls, $2\le k\le n$. Fix a marked (and labeled) circle $S$. -Let $C(S)$ denote the cone of $S$, a marked 2-ball (Figure xxxx). +Let $C(S)$ denote the cone of $S$, a marked 2-ball (Figure \ref{feb21d}). \nn{I need to make up my mind whether marked things are always labeled too. For the time being, let's say they are.} A 1-marked $k$-ball is anything homeomorphic to $B^j \times C(S)$, $0\le j\le n-2$, @@ -1180,6 +1204,14 @@ smaller 1-marked $k$-balls or the product of an unmarked ball with a marked interval. We now proceed as in the above module definitions. +\begin{figure}[!ht] +\begin{equation*} +\mathfig{.4}{tempkw/feb21d} +\end{equation*} +\caption{Cone on a marked circle} +\label{feb21d} +\end{figure} + A $n$-category 1-sphere module is, among other things, an $n{-}2$-category $\cD$ with \[ \cD(X) \deq \cM(X\times C(S)) .