diff -r c9e955e08768 -r 4fd165bc745b text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Wed Aug 10 13:30:17 2011 -0600 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Wed Aug 10 15:31:45 2011 -0700 @@ -214,12 +214,14 @@ with the (ordinary, not fibered) product $\cC(B_1) \times \cC(B_2)$. Let $\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E$ denote the image of $\gl_E$. -We will refer to elements of $\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E$ as ``splittable along $E$" or ``transverse to $E$". When the gluing map is surjective every such element is splittable. +We will refer to elements of $\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E$ as ``splittable along $E$" or ``transverse to $E$". +When the gluing map is surjective every such element is splittable. If $X$ is a $k$-ball and $E \sub \bd X$ splits $\bd X$ into two $k{-}1$-balls $B_1$ and $B_2$ as above, then we define $\cC(X)\trans E = \bd^{-1}(\cl{\cC}(\bd X)\trans E)$. -We will call the projection $\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E \to \cC(B_i)$ +We will call the projection $\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E \to \cC(B_i)$ given by the composition +$$\cl{\cC}(S)\trans E \xrightarrow{\gl^{-1}} \cC(B_1) \times \cC(B_2) \xrightarrow{\pr_i} \cC(B_i)$$ a {\it restriction} map and write $\res_{B_i}(a)$ (or simply $\res(a)$ when there is no ambiguity), for $a\in \cl{\cC}(S)\trans E$. More generally, we also include under the rubric ``restriction map" @@ -227,9 +229,14 @@ another class of maps introduced after Axiom \ref{nca-assoc} below, as well as any composition of restriction maps. In particular, we have restriction maps $\cC(X)\trans E \to \cC(B_i)$ -($i = 1, 2$, notation from previous paragraph). +defined as the composition of the boundary with the first restriction map described above: +$$ +\cC(X) \trans E \xrightarrow{\bdy} \cl{\cC}(\bdy X)\trans E \xrightarrow{\res} \cC(B_i) +.$$ These restriction maps can be thought of as domain and range maps, relative to the choice of splitting $\bd X = B_1 \cup_E B_2$. +These restriction maps in fact have their image in the subset $\cC(B_i)\trans E$, +and so to emphasize this we will sometimes write the restriction map as $\cC(X)\trans E \to \cC(B_i)\trans E$. Next we consider composition of morphisms.