diff -r 33b3e0c065d2 -r e3ddb8605e32 text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Sun Jun 19 17:07:48 2011 -0600 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Sun Jun 19 17:31:34 2011 -0600 @@ -492,7 +492,11 @@ \caption{Five examples of unions of pinched products}\label{pinched_prod_unions} \end{figure} -The product axiom will give a map $\pi^*:\cC(X)\to \cC(E)$ for each pinched product +Note that $\bd X$ has a (possibly trivial) subdivision according to +the dimension of $\pi\inv(x)$, $x\in \bd X$. +Let $\cC(X)\trans{}$ denote the morphisms which are splittable along this subdivision. + +The product axiom will give a map $\pi^*:\cC(X)\trans{}\to \cC(E)$ for each pinched product $\pi:E\to X$. Morphisms in the image of $\pi^*$ will be called product morphisms. Before stating the axiom, we illustrate it in our two motivating examples of $n$-categories. @@ -506,7 +510,7 @@ \begin{axiom}[Product (identity) morphisms] \label{axiom:product} For each pinched product $\pi:E\to X$, with $X$ a $k$-ball and $E$ a $k{+}m$-ball ($m\ge 1$), -there is a map $\pi^*:\cC(X)\to \cC(E)$. +there is a map $\pi^*:\cC(X)\trans{}\to \cC(E)$. These maps must satisfy the following conditions. \begin{enumerate} \item @@ -529,7 +533,7 @@ but $X_1 \cap X_2$ might not be codimension 1, and indeed we might have $X_1 = X_2 = X$. We assume that there is a decomposition of $X$ into balls which is compatible with $X_1$ and $X_2$. -Let $a\in \cC(X)$, and let $a_i$ denote the restriction of $a$ to $X_i\sub X$. +Let $a\in \cC(X)\trans{}$, and let $a_i$ denote the restriction of $a$ to $X_i\sub X$. (We assume that $a$ is splittable with respect to the above decomposition of $X$ into balls.) Then \[