# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1308705031 25200 # Node ID 0c681fbb7b85d482f3d77dbfe3f43ece19aabacb # Parent c6ab12960403989399dfcb8feea0bc30247d170f minor diff -r c6ab12960403 -r 0c681fbb7b85 blob to-do --- a/blob to-do Tue Jun 21 12:05:16 2011 -0700 +++ b/blob to-do Tue Jun 21 18:10:31 2011 -0700 @@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ ====== minor/optional ====== -* ? define Morita equivalence? - * consider proving the gluing formula for higher codimension manifolds with morita equivalence diff -r c6ab12960403 -r 0c681fbb7b85 blob_changes_v3 --- a/blob_changes_v3 Tue Jun 21 12:05:16 2011 -0700 +++ b/blob_changes_v3 Tue Jun 21 18:10:31 2011 -0700 @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ - modified families-of-homeomorphisms-action axiom for A-infinity n-categories, and added discussion of alternatives - added n-cat axiom for existence of splittings - added transversality requirement to product morphism axiom +- added remarks on Morita equivalence for n-categories diff -r c6ab12960403 -r 0c681fbb7b85 text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Tue Jun 21 12:05:16 2011 -0700 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Tue Jun 21 18:10:31 2011 -0700 @@ -689,6 +689,8 @@ Furthermore, if $q$ is any decomposition of $X$, then we can take the vertex of $\vcone(P)$ to be $q$ up to a small perturbation. \end{axiom} +\nn{maybe also say that any splitting of $\bd c$ can be extended to a splitting of $c$} + It is easy to see that this axiom holds in our two motivating examples, using standard facts about transversality and general position. One starts with $q$, perturbs it so that it is in general position with respect to $c$ (in the case of string diagrams) @@ -696,7 +698,7 @@ and the perturbed $q$. These common refinements form the middle ($P\times \{0\}$ above) part of $\vcone(P)$. -We note two simple special cases of axiom \ref{axiom:vcones}. +We note two simple special cases of Axiom \ref{axiom:vcones}. If $P$ is the empty poset, then $\vcone(P)$ consists of only the vertex, and the axiom says that any morphism $c$ can be split along any decomposition of $X$, after a small perturbation. If $P$ is the disjoint union of two points, then $\vcone(P)$ looks like a letter W, and the axiom implies that the @@ -885,7 +887,7 @@ In the $n$-category axioms above we have intermingled data and properties for expository reasons. Here's a summary of the definition which segregates the data from the properties. -An $n$-category consists of the following data: +An $n$-category consists of the following data: \nn{need to revise this list} \begin{itemize} \item functors $\cC_k$ from $k$-balls to sets, $0\le k\le n$ (Axiom \ref{axiom:morphisms}); \item boundary natural transformations $\cC_k \to \cl{\cC}_{k-1} \circ \bd$ (Axiom \ref{nca-boundary});