diff -r ab6bfadab93e -r 222da6df3edc pnas/pnas.tex --- a/pnas/pnas.tex Sun Nov 14 16:02:06 2010 -0800 +++ b/pnas/pnas.tex Sun Nov 14 16:13:12 2010 -0800 @@ -239,10 +239,7 @@ \nn{say something about defining plain and infty cases simultaneously} There are five basic ingredients -(not two, or four, or seven, but {\bf five} basic ingredients, -which he shall wield all wretched sinners and that includes on you, sir, there in the front row! -(cf.\ Monty Python, Life of Brian, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRb8TigJ28)) -of an $n$-category definition: +\cite{life-of-brian} of an $n$-category definition: $k$-morphisms (for $0\le k \le n$), domain and range, composition, identity morphisms, and special behavior in dimension $n$ (e.g. enrichment in some auxiliary category, or strict associativity instead of weak associativity). @@ -636,7 +633,7 @@ \subsection{Specializations} \label{sec:specializations} -The blob complex has two important special cases. +The blob complex has several important special cases. \begin{thm}[Skein modules] \label{thm:skein-modules} @@ -663,6 +660,20 @@ Theorem \ref{thm:hochschild} is established by extending the statement to bimodules as well as categories, then verifying that the universal properties of Hochschild homology also hold for $\bc_*(S^1; -)$. +\begin{thm}[Mapping spaces] +\label{thm:map-recon} +Let $\pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)$ denote the $A_\infty$ $n$-category based on maps +$B^n \to T$. +(The case $n=1$ is the usual $A_\infty$-category of paths in $T$.) +Then +$$\bc_*(X; \pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)) \simeq \CM{X}{T}.$$ +\end{thm} + +This says that we can recover (up to homotopy) the space of maps to $T$ via blob homology from local data. +Note that there is no restriction on the connectivity of $T$ as there is for the corresponding result in topological chiral homology \cite[Theorem 3.8.6]{0911.0018}. +\todo{sketch proof} + + \subsection{Structure of the blob complex} \label{sec:structure} @@ -700,12 +711,6 @@ \end{equation*} \end{thm} -\nn{if we need to save space, I think this next paragraph could be cut} -Since the blob complex is functorial in the manifold $X$, this is equivalent to having chain maps -$$ev_{X \to Y} : \CH{X \to Y} \tensor \bc_*(X) \to \bc_*(Y)$$ -for any homeomorphic pair $X$ and $Y$, -satisfying corresponding conditions. - \begin{proof}(Sketch.) The most convenient way to prove this is to introduce yet another homotopy equivalent version of the blob complex, $\cB\cT_*(X)$. @@ -774,22 +779,8 @@ \nn{Theorem \ref{thm:product} is proved in \S \ref{ss:product-formula}, and Theorem \ref{thm:gluing} in \S \ref{sec:gluing}.} -\section{Applications} +\section{Higher Deligne conjecture} \label{sec:applications} -Finally, we give two applications of the above machinery. - -\begin{thm}[Mapping spaces] -\label{thm:map-recon} -Let $\pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)$ denote the $A_\infty$ $n$-category based on maps -$B^n \to T$. -(The case $n=1$ is the usual $A_\infty$-category of paths in $T$.) -Then -$$\bc_*(X; \pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)) \simeq \CM{X}{T}.$$ -\end{thm} - -This says that we can recover (up to homotopy) the space of maps to $T$ via blob homology from local data. -Note that there is no restriction on the connectivity of $T$ as there is for the corresponding result in topological chiral homology \cite[Theorem 3.8.6]{0911.0018}. -\todo{sketch proof} \begin{thm}[Higher dimensional Deligne conjecture] \label{thm:deligne} @@ -845,7 +836,6 @@ Justin Roberts, and Peter Teichner. -\nn{not full list from big paper, but only most significant names} We also thank the Aspen Center for Physics for providing a pleasant and productive environment during the last stages of this project. \end{acknowledgments}