# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1289788383 28800 # Node ID 53aed9fdfcd9cc32808e0e45a6b6e378dc5108a6 # Parent dda6d3a00b0960f4d7c59a1727d042a83f283884 proof of product thm diff -r dda6d3a00b09 -r 53aed9fdfcd9 pnas/pnas.tex --- a/pnas/pnas.tex Sun Nov 14 17:28:04 2010 -0800 +++ b/pnas/pnas.tex Sun Nov 14 18:33:03 2010 -0800 @@ -788,12 +788,24 @@ (see \cite[\S7.1]{1009.5025}). \begin{proof} (Sketch.) +The proof is similar to that of the second part of Theorem \ref{thm:gluing}. +There is a natural map from the 0-simplices of $\clh{\bc_*(Y;\cC)}(W)$ to $\bc_*(Y\times W; \cC)$, +given by reinterpreting a decomposition of $W$ labeled by $(n{-}k)$-morphisms of $\bc_*(Y; \cC)$ as a blob +diagram on $W\times Y$. +This map can be extended to all of $\clh{\bc_*(Y;\cC)}(W)$ by sending higher simplices to zero. +To construct the homotopy inverse of the above map one first shows that +$\bc_*(Y\times W; \cC)$ is homotopy equivalent to the subcomplex generated by blob diagrams which +are small with respect any fixed open cover of $Y\times W$. +For a sufficiently fine open cover the generators of this ``small" blob complex are in the image of the map +of the previous paragraph, and furthermore the preimage in $\clh{\bc_*(Y;\cC)}(W)$ of such small diagrams +lie in contractible subcomplexes. +A standard acyclic models argument now constructs the homotopy inverse. \end{proof} %\nn{Theorem \ref{thm:product} is proved in \S \ref{ss:product-formula}, and Theorem \ref{thm:gluing} in \S \ref{sec:gluing}.} -\section{Higher Deligne conjecture} +\section{Deligne conjecture for $n$-categories} \label{sec:applications} \begin{thm}[Higher dimensional Deligne conjecture] @@ -818,7 +830,7 @@ The little disks operad $LD$ is homotopy equivalent to \nn{suboperad of} -the $n=1$ case of the $n$-SC operad. The blob complex $\bc_*(I, \cC)$ is a bimodule over itself, and the $A_\infty$-bimodule intertwiners are homotopy equivalent to the Hochschild cohains $Hoch^*(C, C)$. +the $n=1$ case of the $n$-SC operad. The blob complex $\bc_*(I, \cC)$ is a bimodule over itself, and the $A_\infty$-bimodule intertwiners are homotopy equivalent to the Hochschild cochains $Hoch^*(C, C)$. The usual Deligne conjecture (proved variously in \cite{hep-th/9403055, MR1805894, MR2064592, MR1805923}) gives a map \[ C_*(LD_k)\tensor \overbrace{Hoch^*(C, C)\tensor\cdots\tensor Hoch^*(C, C)}^{\text{$k$ copies}}