diff -r 2cb4fa7c5d0a -r ace8913f02a5 text/intro.tex --- a/text/intro.tex Tue Jul 27 09:30:53 2010 -0400 +++ b/text/intro.tex Tue Jul 27 15:01:38 2010 -0400 @@ -358,6 +358,10 @@ for any homeomorphic pair $X$ and $Y$, satisfying corresponding conditions. +\nn{KW: the next paragraph seems awkward to me} + +\nn{KW: also, I'm not convinced that all of these (above and below) should be called theorems} + In \S \ref{sec:ncats} we introduce the notion of topological $n$-categories, from which we can construct systems of fields. Below, we talk about the blob complex associated to a topological $n$-category, implicitly passing first to the system of fields. Further, in \S \ref{sec:ncats} we also have the notion of an $A_\infty$ $n$-category. @@ -378,11 +382,13 @@ Perhaps the most interesting case is when $Y$ is just a point; then we have a way of building an $A_\infty$ $n$-category from a topological $n$-category. We think of this $A_\infty$ $n$-category as a free resolution. \end{rem} -Theorem \ref{thm:blobs-ainfty} appears as Example \ref{ex:blob-complexes-of-balls} in \S \ref{sec:ncats} + +Theorem \ref{thm:blobs-ainfty} appears as Example \ref{ex:blob-complexes-of-balls} in \S \ref{sec:ncats}. There is a version of the blob complex for $\cC$ an $A_\infty$ $n$-category instead of a topological $n$-category; this is described in \S \ref{sec:ainfblob}. -The definition is in fact simpler, almost tautological, and we use a different notation, $\cl{\cC}(M)$. The notation is intended to reflect the close parallel with the definition of the TQFT skein module via a colimit. +The definition is in fact simpler, almost tautological, and we use a different notation, $\cl{\cC}(M)$. +%The notation is intended to reflect the close parallel with the definition of the TQFT skein module via a colimit. \newtheorem*{thm:product}{Theorem \ref{thm:product}} @@ -395,7 +401,8 @@ \bc_*(Y\times W; \cC) \simeq \cl{\bc_*(Y;\cC)}(W). \] \end{thm:product} -We also give a generalization of this statement for arbitrary fibre bundles, in \S \ref{moddecss}, and a sketch of a statement for arbitrary maps. +The statement can be generalized to arbitrary fibre bundles, and indeed to arbitrary maps +(see \S \ref{moddecss}). Fix a topological $n$-category $\cC$, which we'll omit from the notation. Recall that for any $(n-1)$-manifold $Y$, the blob complex $\bc_*(Y)$ is naturally an $A_\infty$ category. @@ -417,11 +424,11 @@ \end{itemize} \end{thm:gluing} -Theorem \ref{thm:product} is proved in \S \ref{ss:product-formula}, with Theorem \ref{thm:gluing} then a relatively straightforward consequence of the proof, explained in \S \ref{sec:gluing}. +Theorem \ref{thm:product} is proved in \S \ref{ss:product-formula}, and Theorem \ref{thm:gluing} in \S \ref{sec:gluing}. \subsection{Applications} \label{sec:applications} -Finally, we give two theorems which we consider as applications. +Finally, we give two theorems which we consider applications. % or "think of as" \newtheorem*{thm:map-recon}{Theorem \ref{thm:map-recon}} @@ -430,27 +437,31 @@ $B^n \to T$. (The case $n=1$ is the usual $A_\infty$-category of paths in $T$.) Then -$$\bc_*(X, \pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)) \simeq \CM{X}{T}.$$ +$$\bc_*(X; \pi^\infty_{\le n}(T)) \simeq \CM{X}{T}.$$ \end{thm:map-recon} -This says that we can recover the (homotopic) space of maps to $T$ via blob homology from local data. The proof appears in \S \ref{sec:map-recon}. +This says that we can recover (up to homotopy) the space of maps to $T$ via blob homology from local data. +The proof appears in \S \ref{sec:map-recon}. \newtheorem*{thm:deligne}{Theorem \ref{thm:deligne}} \begin{thm:deligne}[Higher dimensional Deligne conjecture] The singular chains of the $n$-dimensional fat graph operad act on blob cochains. \end{thm:deligne} -See \S \ref{sec:deligne} for a full explanation of the statement, and an outline of the proof. +See \S \ref{sec:deligne} for a full explanation of the statement, and the proof. \subsection{Future directions} \label{sec:future} -Throughout, we have resisted the temptation to work in the greatest generality possible (don't worry, it wasn't that hard). +\nn{KW: Perhaps we should delete this subsection and salvage only the first few sentences.} +Throughout, we have resisted the temptation to work in the greatest generality possible. +(Don't worry, it wasn't that hard.) In most of the places where we say ``set" or ``vector space", any symmetric monoidal category would do. -We could presumably also replace many of our chain complexes with topological spaces (or indeed, work at the generality of model categories), -and likely it will prove useful to think about the connections between what we do here and $(\infty,k)$-categories. +We could also replace many of our chain complexes with topological spaces (or indeed, work at the generality of model categories). +%%%%%% +And likely it will prove useful to think about the connections between what we do here and $(\infty,k)$-categories. More could be said about finite characteristic (there appears in be $2$-torsion in $\bc_1(S^2; \cC)$ for any spherical $2$-category $\cC$, for example). Much more could be said about other types of manifolds, in particular oriented,