# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1280529368 14400 # Node ID 8ed3aeb787785988d632574378ef626507e417bd # Parent 6712876d73e074ae90e34fda8c661186f7db194b sphere module n+1 mor stuff diff -r 6712876d73e0 -r 8ed3aeb78778 text/ncat.tex --- a/text/ncat.tex Fri Jul 30 14:19:23 2010 -0700 +++ b/text/ncat.tex Fri Jul 30 18:36:08 2010 -0400 @@ -2048,7 +2048,6 @@ non-degenerate inner products", then there is a coherent family of isomorphisms $\cS(X; c; E) \cong \cS(X; c; E')$ for all pairs of choices $E$ and $E'$. This will allow us to define $\cS(X; c)$ independently of the choice of $E$. -\nn{also need to (simultaneously) show compatibility with action of homeos of boundary} First we must define ``inner product", ``non-degenerate" and ``compatible". Let $Y$ be a decorated $n$-ball, and $\ol{Y}$ it's mirror image. @@ -2220,7 +2219,7 @@ This construction involves on a choice of simple ``moves" (as above) to transform $E$ to $E'$. We must now show that the isomorphism does not depend on this choice. -We will show below that it suffice to check three ``movie moves". +We will show below that it suffice to check two ``movie moves". The first movie move is to push $E$ across an $n$-ball $B$ as above, then push it back. The result is equivalent to doing nothing. @@ -2311,15 +2310,15 @@ Invariance under this movie move follows from the compatibility of the inner product for $B_1\cup B_2$ with the inner products for $B_1$ and $B_2$. -The third movie move could be called ``locality" or ``disjoint commutativity". -\nn{...} +%The third movie move could be called ``locality" or ``disjoint commutativity". +%\nn{...} -If $n\ge 2$, these three movie move suffice: +If $n\ge 2$, these two movie move suffice: \begin{lem} Assume $n\ge 2$ and fix $E$ and $E'$ as above. The any two sequences of elementary moves connecting $E$ to $E'$ -are related by a sequence of the three movie moves defined above. +are related by a sequence of the two movie moves defined above. \end{lem} \begin{proof} @@ -2330,7 +2329,7 @@ such a family is homotopic to a family which can be decomposed into small families which are either (a) supported away from $E$, -(b) have boundaries corresponding to the three movie moves above. +(b) have boundaries corresponding to the two movie moves above. Finally, observe that the space of $E$'s is simply connected. (This fails for $n=1$.) \end{proof} @@ -2339,18 +2338,30 @@ rotating the 0-sphere $E$ around the 1-sphere $\bd X$. \nn{should check this global move, or maybe cite Frobenius reciprocity result} -\nn{...} +\medskip + +We have now defined $\cS(X; c)$ for any $n{+}1$-ball $X$ with boundary decoration $c$. +We must also define, for any homeomorphism $X\to X'$, an action $f: \cS(X; c) \to \cS(X', f(c))$. +Choosing an equator $E\sub \bd X$ we have +\[ + \cS(X; c) \cong \cS(X; c; E) \deq \hom_{\cS(E_c)}(\cS(\bd_-X_c), \cS(\bd_+X_c)) . +\] +We define $f: \cS(X; c) \to \cS(X', f(c))$ to be the tautological map +\[ + f: \cS(X; c; E) \to \cS(X'; f(c); f(E)) . +\] +It is easy to show that this is independent of the choice of $E$. +Note also that this map depends only on the restriction of $f$ to $\bd X$. +In particular, if $F: X\to X$ is the identity on $\bd X$ then $f$ acts trivially, as required by +Axiom \ref{axiom:extended-isotopies} of \S\ref{ss:n-cat-def}. + + +\nn{still to do: gluing, associativity, collar maps} \medskip \hrule \medskip -\nn{to be continued...} -\medskip - - - - Stuff that remains to be done (either below or in an appendix or in a separate section or in