diff -r 7e14f79814cd -r 25e551fed344 text/deligne.tex --- a/text/deligne.tex Sat May 29 08:35:06 2010 -0700 +++ b/text/deligne.tex Sat May 29 15:10:45 2010 -0700 @@ -72,18 +72,23 @@ More specifically, an $n$-dimensional fat graph consists of: \begin{itemize} -\item ``Incoming" $n$-manifolds $M_1,\ldots,M_k$ and ``outgoing" $n$-manifolds $N_1,\ldots,N_k$, -with $\bd M_i = \bd N_i$ for all $i$. -\item An ``outer boundary" $n{-}1$-manifold $E$. -\item Additional manifolds $R_0,\ldots,R_{k+1}$, with $\bd R_i = E\cup \bd M_i = E\cup \bd N_i$. -(By convention, $M_i = N_i = \emptyset$ if $i <1$ or $i>k$.) -We call $R_0$ the outer incoming manifold and $R_{k+1}$ the outer outgoing manifold -\item Homeomorphisms $f_i : R_i\cup N_i\to R_{i+1}\cup M_{i+1}$, $0\le i \le k$. +\item ``Upper" $n$-manifolds $M_0,\ldots,M_k$ and ``lower" $n$-manifolds $N_0,\ldots,N_k$, +with $\bd M_i = \bd N_i = E_i$ for all $i$. +We call $M_0$ and $N_0$ the outer boundary and the remaining $M_i$'s and $N_i$'s the inner +boundaries. +\item Additional manifolds $R_1,\ldots,R_{k}$, with $\bd R_i = E_0\cup \bd M_i = E_0\cup \bd N_i$. +%(By convention, $M_i = N_i = \emptyset$ if $i <1$ or $i>k$.) +\item Homeomorphisms +\begin{eqnarray*} + f_0: M_0 &\to& R_1\cup M_1 \\ + f_i: R_i\cup N_i &\to& R_{i+1}\cup M_{i+1}\;\; \mbox{for}\, 1\le i \le k-1 \\ + f_k: R_k\cup N_k &\to& N_0 . +\end{eqnarray*} +Each $f_i$ should be the identity restricted to $E_0$. \end{itemize} We can think of the above data as encoding the union of the mapping cylinders $C(f_0),\ldots,C(f_k)$, with $C(f_i)$ glued to $C(f_{i+1})$ along $R_{i+1}$ (see Figure xxxx). -\nn{also need to revise outer labels of older fig} The $n$-manifolds are the ``$n$-dimensional graph" and the $I$ direction of the mapping cylinders is the ``fat" part. We regard two such fat graphs as the same if there is a homeomorphism between them which is the identity on the boundary and which preserves the 1-dimensional fibers coming from the mapping @@ -94,7 +99,7 @@ \[ (\ldots, f_{i-1}, f_i, \ldots) \to (\ldots, g\circ f_{i-1}, f_i\circ g^{-1}, \ldots) . \] -(See Figure xxx.) +(See Figure xxxx.) \item If $M_i = M'_i \du M''_i$ and $N_i = N'_i \du N''_i$ (and there is a compatible disjoint union of $\bd M = \bd N$), we can replace \begin{eqnarray*} @@ -112,28 +117,49 @@ In terms of the ``sequence of surgeries" picture, this says that if two successive surgeries do not overlap, we can perform them in reverse order or simultaneously. -\nn{operad structure (need to ntro mroe terminology above} +There is an operad structure on $n$-dimensional fat graphs, given by gluing the outer boundary +of one graph into one of the inner boundaries of another graph. +We leave it to the reader to work out a more precise statement in terms of $M_i$'s, $f_i$'s etc. + +For fixed $\ol{M} = (M_0,\ldots,M_k)$ and $\ol{N} = (N_0,\ldots,N_k)$, we let +$FG^n_{\ol{M}\ol{N}}$ denote the topological space of all $n$-dimensional fat graphs as above. +The topology comes from the spaces +\[ + \Homeo(M_0\to R_1\cup M_1)\times \Homeo(R_1\cup N_1\to R_2\cup M_2)\times + \cdots\times \Homeo(R_k\cup N_k\to N_0) +\] +and the above equivalence relations. +We will denote the typical element of $FG^n_{\ol{M}\ol{N}}$ by $\ol{f} = (f_0,\ldots,f_k)$. + + +\medskip + +Let $\ol{f} \in FG^n_{\ol{M}\ol{N}}$. +Let $\hom(\bc_*(M_i), \bc_*(N_i))$ denote the morphisms from $\bc_*(M_i)$ to $\bc_*(N_i)$, +as modules of the $A_\infty$ 1-category $\bc_*(E_i)$. +We define a map +\[ + p(\ol{f}): \hom(\bc_*(M_1), \bc_*(N_1))\ot\cdots\ot\hom(\bc_*(M_k), \bc_*(N_k)) + \to \hom(\bc_*(M_0), \bc_*(N_0)) . +\] +Given $\alpha_i\in\hom(\bc_*(M_i), \bc_*(N_i))$, we define $p(\ol{f}$ to be the composition +\[ + \bc_*(M_0) \stackrel{f_0}{\to} \bc_*(R_1\cup M_1) + \stackrel{\id\ot\alpha_1}{\to} \bc_*(R_1\cup N_1) + \stackrel{f_1}{\to} \bc_*(R_2\cup M_2) \to + \cdots \stackrel{\id\ot\alpha_k}{\to} \bc_*(R_k\cup N_k) + \stackrel{f_k}{\to} \bc_*(N_0) +\] +(Recall that the maps $\id\ot\alpha_i$ were defined in \nn{need ref}.) +It is easy to check that the above definition is compatible with the equivalence relations +and also the operad structure. + +\nn{little m-disks operad; } \nn{*** resume revising here} -The components of the $n$-dimensional fat graph operad are indexed by tuples -$(\overline{M}, \overline{N}) = ((M_0,\ldots,M_k), (N_0,\ldots,N_k))$. -\nn{not quite true: this is coarser than components} -Note that the suboperad where $M_i$, $N_i$ and $R_i\cup M_i$ are all homeomorphic to -the $n$-ball is equivalent to the little $n{+}1$-disks operad. -\nn{what about rotating in the horizontal directions?} - - -If $M$ and $N$ are $n$-manifolds sharing the same boundary, we define -the blob cochains $\bc^*(A, B)$ (analogous to Hochschild cohomology) to be -$A_\infty$ maps from $\bc_*(M)$ to $\bc_*(N)$, where we think of both -collections of complexes as modules over the $A_\infty$ category associated to $\bd A = \bd B$. -The ``holes" in the above -$n$-dimensional fat graph operad are labeled by $\bc^*(A_i, B_i)$. -\nn{need to make up my mind which notation I'm using for the module maps} - Putting this together we get \begin{prop}(Precise statement of Property \ref{property:deligne}) \label{prop:deligne}