diff -r 57425531f564 -r 6868130229bf text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Sat Jun 25 06:44:35 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sat Jun 25 06:52:04 2011 -0700 @@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ And indeed, this is true for our main example of an $A_\infty$ $n$-category based on the blob construction. Stating this sort of compatibility for general $\cS$ and $\cJ$ requires further assumptions, such as the forgetful functor from $\cS$ to sets having a left adjoint, and $\cS$ having an internal Hom. + An alternative (due to Peter Teichner) is to say that Axiom \ref{axiom:families} supersedes the $k=n$ case of Axiom \ref{axiom:morphisms}; in dimension $n$ we just have a functor $\bbc \to \cS$ of $A_\infty$ 1-categories. @@ -940,6 +941,8 @@ to refrain from settling on a preferred version of the axiom until we have a greater variety of examples to guide the choice. +\nn{say something about isotopy invariance being a special case} + Another variant of the above axiom would be to drop the ``up to homotopy" and require a strictly associative action. In fact, the alternative construction of the blob complex described in \S \ref{ss:alt-def} gives $n$-categories as in Example \ref{ex:blob-complexes-of-balls} which satisfy this stronger axiom;