diff -r 73fc4868c039 -r 775b5ca42bed text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Sat May 07 09:40:20 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sun May 08 09:05:53 2011 -0700 @@ -1026,8 +1026,13 @@ are glued up to yield $W$, so long as there is some (non-pathological) way to glue them. (Every smooth or PL manifold has a ball decomposition, but certain topological manifolds (e.g.\ non-smoothable -topological 4-manifolds) do nat have ball decompositions. -For such manifolds we have only the empty colimit.) +topological 4-manifolds) do not have ball decompositions. +For such manifolds we have only the empty colimit.) + +We want the category (poset) of decompositions of $W$ to be small, so when we say decomposition we really +mean isomorphism class of decomposition. +Isomorphisms are defined in the obvious way: a collection of homeomorphisms $M_i\to M_i'$ which commute +with the gluing maps $M_i\to M_{i+1}$ and $M'_i\to M'_{i+1}$. Given permissible decompositions $x = \{X_a\}$ and $y = \{Y_b\}$ of $W$, we say that $x$ is a refinement of $y$, or write $x \le y$, if there is a ball decomposition $\du_a X_a = M_0\to\cdots\to M_m = W$ @@ -1189,7 +1194,7 @@ injective. Concretely, the colimit is the disjoint union of the sets (one for each decomposition of $W$), modulo the relation which identifies the domain of each of the injective maps -with it's image. +with its image. To save ink and electrons we will simplify notation and write $\psi(x)$ for $\psi_{\cC;W}(x)$.