diff -r 172cf5fc2629 -r a35df2babdae talks/201101-Teichner/notes.tex --- a/talks/201101-Teichner/notes.tex Tue Jan 25 00:30:50 2011 -0800 +++ b/talks/201101-Teichner/notes.tex Tue Jan 25 10:15:35 2011 -0800 @@ -34,12 +34,17 @@ \newcommand{\iso}{\cong} \newcommand{\tensor}{\otimes} \newcommand{\Tensor}{\bigotimes} +\newcommand{\directSum}{\oplus} +\newcommand{\DirectSum}{\bigoplus} \newcommand{\into}{\hookrightarrow} \newcommand{\restrict}[2]{#1{}_{\mid #2}{}} \newcommand{\set}[1]{\left\{#1\right\}} \newcommand{\setc}[2]{\setcl{#1}{#2}} +\newcommand{\setcl}[2]{\left\{ \left. #1 \;\right| \; #2 \right\}} +\newcommand{\setcr}[2]{\left\{ #1 \;\left| \; #2 \right\}\right.} + % tricky way to iterate macros over a list \def\semicolon{;} @@ -250,6 +255,12 @@ If $X$ contains two copies of $Y$, $A(X)$ is then a bimodule over $A(Y)$. Below, we'll compute the invariant of the `glued up' manifold $X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow$ as the self-tensor product of this bimodule. +What is the self-tensor product of a bimodule over a category? First, what is the tensor product of a left-module and a right-module? Recall a module $\cM$ over a category $\cC$ is a collection of vector spaces $\cM_c$ indexed by an object $c \in \cC$, along with a linear map $f: \cM_a \to \cM_b$ for each morphism $f:a \mapsto b$ of $\cC$. The tensor product of a left- and a right-module is defined to be the vector space +$$\cM \Tensor_\cC \cN = \left(\DirectSum_{c \in \cC} \cM_c \tensor {}_c\cN\right) \Big/ \setc{mf \tensor n - m \tensor fn}{f: c \mapsto c'}$$ +just as you'd expect. The self-tensor product of a bimodule ${}_{\cC}\cX_{\cC}$ is then +$$\cX \Tensor_{\cC} \selfarrow = \DirectSum_{c \in \cC} {}_c \cX_c / (xf - fx).$$ + + \begin{lem} Any isotopy of $X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow$ is homotopic to a composition of `collar shift' isotopies and isotopies that are constant on $Y$ (i.e. the image of an isotopy of $X$ itself). \end{lem} @@ -261,7 +272,7 @@ $$A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow) \iso A(X) \Tensor_{A(Y)} \selfarrow$$ \end{thm} \begin{proof} -Certainly there is a map $A(X) \to A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. We send an element of $A(X)$ to the corresponding `glued up' element of $A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. This is well-defined since $\cU(X)$ maps into $\cU(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. This map descends down to a map +Certainly there is a map $\DirectSum_{y \in \cF(Y)} A(X; y \bullet y) \to A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. We send an element of $A(X)$ to the corresponding `glued up' element of $A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. This is well-defined since $\cU(X)$ maps into $\cU(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$. This map descends down to a map $$A(X) \Tensor_{A(Y)} \selfarrow \to A(X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow)$$ since the fields $ev$ and $ve$ (here $e \in A(Y), v \in A(X)$) are isotopic on $X \bigcup_Y \selfarrow$ (see Figure \ref{fig:ev-ve}).