diff -r ef8fac44a8aa -r c6483345e64e text/a_inf_blob.tex --- a/text/a_inf_blob.tex Mon May 31 23:42:37 2010 -0700 +++ b/text/a_inf_blob.tex Tue Jun 01 11:08:17 2010 -0700 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ This is clear, since the acyclic subcomplexes $D(a)$ above used in the definition of $\phi$ and $\phi'$ do not depend on the choice of cover. -\nn{need to say (and justify) that we now have a map $\phi$ indep of choice of cover} +%\nn{need to say (and justify) that we now have a map $\phi$ indep of choice of cover} We now show that $\phi\circ\psi$ and $\psi\circ\phi$ are homotopic to the identity. @@ -217,10 +217,10 @@ according to some decomposition $K$ of $Y$. $\psi$ glues those pieces back together, yielding the same $a$ we started with. -$\phi\circ\psi$ is the identity up to homotopy by another MoAM argument... +$\phi\circ\psi$ is the identity up to homotopy by another MoAM argument.... + This concludes the proof of Theorem \ref{product_thm}. -\nn{at least I think it does; it's pretty rough at this point.} \end{proof} \nn{need to say something about dim $< n$ above} @@ -237,21 +237,31 @@ \medskip -\nn{To do: remark on the case of a nontrivial fiber bundle. -I can think of two approaches. -In the first (slick but maybe a little too tautological), we generalize the -notion of an $n$-category to an $n$-category {\it over a space $B$}. -(Should be able to find precedent for this in a paper of PT. -This idea came up in a conversation with him, so maybe should site him.) -In this generalization, we replace the categories of balls with the categories -of balls equipped with maps to $B$. -A fiber bundle $F\to E\to B$ gives an example of such an $n$-category: -assign to $p:D\to B$ the blob complex $\bc_*(p^*(E))$. -We can do the colimit thing over $B$ with coefficients in a n-cat-over-B. -The proof below works essentially unchanged in this case to show that the colimit is the blob complex of the total space $E$. -} +Theorem \ref{product_thm} extends to the case of general fiber bundles +\[ + F \to E \to Y . +\] +We outline two approaches. -\nn{The second approach: Choose a decomposition $B = \cup X_i$ +We can generalize the definition of a $k$-category by replacing the categories +of $j$-balls ($j\le k$) with categories of $j$-balls $D$ equipped with a map $p:D\to Y$. +\nn{need citation to other work that does this; Stolz and Teichner?} +Call this a $k$-category over $Y$. +A fiber bundle $F\to E\to Y$ gives an example of a $k$-category over $Y$: +assign to $p:D\to Y$ the blob complex $\bc_*(p^*(E))$. +Let $\cF_E$ denote this $k$-category over $Y$. +We can adapt the homotopy colimit construction (based decompositions of $Y$ into balls) to +get a chain complex $\cF_E(Y)$. +The proof of Theorem \ref{product_thm} goes through essentially unchanged +to show that +\[ + \bc_*(E) \simeq \cF_E(Y) . +\] + + + + +\nn{The second approach: Choose a decomposition $Y = \cup X_i$ such that the restriction of $E$ to $X_i$ is a product $F\times X_i$. Choose the product structure as well. To each codim-1 face $D_i\cap D_j$ we have a bimodule ($S^0$-module). @@ -259,7 +269,7 @@ Decorate the decomposition with these modules and do the colimit. } -\nn{There is a version of this last construction for arbitrary maps $E \to B$ +\nn{There is a version of this last construction for arbitrary maps $E \to Y$ (not necessarily a fibration).}