diff -r d5caffd01b72 -r 61541264d4b3 text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Thu Aug 11 13:26:00 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Thu Aug 11 13:54:38 2011 -0700 @@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ There are two differences. First, for the $n$-category definition we restrict our attention to balls (and their boundaries), while for fields we consider all manifolds. -Second, in category definition we directly impose isotopy +Second, in the category definition we directly impose isotopy invariance in dimension $n$, while in the fields definition we instead remember a subspace of local relations which contain differences of isotopic fields. (Recall that the compensation for this complication is that we can demand that the gluing map for fields is injective.) @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ If $X$ is an $n$-ball, we define $\cC^A(X)$ via a colimit construction. (Plain colimit, not homotopy colimit.) Let $J$ be the category whose objects are embeddings of a disjoint union of copies of -the standard ball $B^n$ into $X$, and who morphisms are given by engulfing some of the +the standard ball $B^n$ into $X$, and whose morphisms are given by engulfing some of the embedded balls into a single larger embedded ball. To each object of $J$ we associate $A^{\times m}$ (where $m$ is the number of balls), and to each morphism of $J$ we associate a morphism coming from the $\cE\cB_n$ action on $A$. @@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ \end{equation*} where $K$ is the vector space spanned by elements $a - g(a)$, with $a\in \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x)$ for some decomposition $x$, and $g: \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x) -\to \psi_{\cC;W,c}(y)$ is value of $\psi_{\cC;W,c}$ on some antirefinement $x \leq y$. +\to \psi_{\cC;W,c}(y)$ is the value of $\psi_{\cC;W,c}$ on some antirefinement $x \leq y$. In the $A_\infty$ case, enriched over chain complexes, the concrete description of the homotopy colimit is more involved. @@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ Let $z$ be a decomposition of $W$ which is in general position with respect to all of the $x_i$'s and $v_i$'s. -There there decompositions $x'_i$ and $v'_i$ (for all $i$) such that +There exist decompositions $x'_i$ and $v'_i$ (for all $i$) such that \begin{itemize} \item $x'_i$ antirefines to $x_i$ and $z$; \item $v'_i$ antirefines to $x'_i$, $x'_{i-1}$ and $v_i$;