# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1275508328 25200 # Node ID 091c36b943e704c2fb729cfc4845280276a56074 # Parent 76c301fdf0a222e3c65ca5f817bf1dc5a0534e3a more futzing with product thm diff -r 76c301fdf0a2 -r 091c36b943e7 text/a_inf_blob.tex --- a/text/a_inf_blob.tex Wed Jun 02 11:45:19 2010 -0700 +++ b/text/a_inf_blob.tex Wed Jun 02 12:52:08 2010 -0700 @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ \[ \psi: \bc_*^\cF(Y) \to \bc_*^C(Y\times F) . \] -In filtration degree 0 we just glue together the various blob diagrams on $X\times F$ -(where $X$ is a component of a permissible decomposition of $Y$) to get a blob diagram on +In filtration degree 0 we just glue together the various blob diagrams on $X_i\times F$ +(where $X_i$ is a component of a permissible decomposition of $Y$) to get a blob diagram on $Y\times F$. In filtration degrees 1 and higher we define the map to be zero. It is easy to check that this is a chain map. @@ -84,22 +84,20 @@ It follows from Proposition \ref{thm:small-blobs} that $\bc_*^C(Y\times F)$ is homotopic to a subcomplex of $G_*$. (If the blobs of $a$ are small with respect to a sufficiently fine cover then their projections to $Y$ are contained in some disjoint union of balls.) -Note that the image of $\psi$ is contained in $G_*$. -(In fact, equal to $G_*$.) +Note that the image of $\psi$ is equal to $G_*$. We will define $\phi: G_* \to \bc_*^\cF(Y)$ using the method of acyclic models. Let $a$ be a generator of $G_*$. -Let $D(a)$ denote the subcomplex of $\bc_*^\cF(Y)$ generated by all $(a, \ol{K})$ -such that $a$ splits along each $K_i\times F$. +Let $D(a)$ denote the subcomplex of $\bc_*^\cF(Y)$ generated by all $(b, \ol{K})$ +such that $a$ splits along $K_0\times F$ and $b$ is a generator appearing +in an iterated boundary of $a$ (this includes $a$ itself). (Recall that $\ol{K} = (K_0,\ldots,K_l)$ denotes a chain of decompositions; see Subsection \ref{ss:ncat_fields}.) -\nn{need to define $D(a)$ more clearly; also includes $(b_j, \ol{K})$ where -$\bd(a) = \sum b_j$.} -(By $(a, \ol{K})$ we really mean $(a^\sharp, \ol{K})$, where $a^\sharp$ is -$a$ split according to $K_0\times F$. -To simplify notation we will just write plain $a$ instead of $a^\sharp$.) +By $(b, \ol{K})$ we really mean $(b^\sharp, \ol{K})$, where $b^\sharp$ is +$b$ split according to $K_0\times F$. +To simplify notation we will just write plain $b$ instead of $b^\sharp$. Roughly speaking, $D(a)$ consists of filtration degree 0 stuff which glues up to give -$a$, filtration degree 1 stuff which makes all of the filtration degree 0 stuff homologous, +$a$ (or one of its iterated boundaries), filtration degree 1 stuff which makes all of the filtration degree 0 stuff homologous, filtration degree 2 stuff which kills the homology created by the filtration degree 1 stuff, and so on. More formally, @@ -148,7 +146,7 @@ We want to show that this cycle bounds a chain of filtration degree 2 stuff. Choose a decomposition $M$ which has common refinements with each of $K$, $KL$, $L$, $K'L$, $K'$, $K'L'$, $L'$ and $KL'$. -\nn{need to also require that $KLM$ antirefines to $KM$, etc.} +(We also also require that $KLM$ antirefines to $KM$, etc.) Then we have a filtration degree 2 chain, as shown in Figure \ref{zzz5}, which does the trick. (Each small triangle in Figure \ref{zzz5} can be filled with a filtration degree 2 chain.) @@ -211,7 +209,7 @@ We have $\psi(r) = 0$ since $\psi$ is zero in positive filtration degrees. $\phi\circ\psi$ is the identity up to homotopy by another MoAM argument. -To each generator $(a, \ol{K})$ of we associated the acyclic subcomplex $D(a)$ defined above. +To each generator $(b, \ol{K})$ of $G_*$ we associate the acyclic subcomplex $D(b)$ defined above. Both the identity map and $\phi\circ\psi$ are compatible with this collection of acyclic subcomplexes, so by the usual MoAM argument these two maps are homotopic.