# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1323730897 28800 # Node ID c57afb230bb1d977db0c687a870343713bb7b602 # Parent bc4086c639b6b692c8085e2bb6133a1ae102c61a remove lemma 3.2.3 (support-shrink lemma); it was only used once diff -r bc4086c639b6 -r c57afb230bb1 blob to-do --- a/blob to-do Mon Dec 12 10:37:50 2011 -0800 +++ b/blob to-do Mon Dec 12 15:01:37 2011 -0800 @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ ====== big ====== -* add "homeomorphism" spiel befure the first use of "homeomorphism in the intro +* add "homeomorphism" spiel before the first use of "homeomorphism" in the intro * maybe also additional homeo warnings in other sections -* Lemma 3.2.3 (\ref{support-shrink}) implicitly assumes embedded (non-self-intersecting) blobs. this can be fixed, of course, but it makes the argument more difficult to understand - * Maybe give more details in 6.7.2 diff -r bc4086c639b6 -r c57afb230bb1 text/basic_properties.tex --- a/text/basic_properties.tex Mon Dec 12 10:37:50 2011 -0800 +++ b/text/basic_properties.tex Mon Dec 12 15:01:37 2011 -0800 @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ For $y \in \bc_*(X)$ with $y = \sum c_i b_i$ ($c_i$ a non-zero number, $b_i$ a blob diagram), we define $\supp(y) \deq \bigcup_i \supp(b_i)$. +%%%%% the following is true in spirit, but technically incorrect if blobs are not embedded; +%%%%% we only use this once, so move lemma and proof to Hochschild section +\noop{ %%%%%%%%%% begin \noop For future use we prove the following lemma. \begin{lemma} \label{support-shrink} @@ -94,6 +97,7 @@ Both $f$ and the identity are compatible with $T$ (in the sense of acyclic models, \S\ref{sec:moam}), so $f$ and the identity map are homotopic. \end{proof} +} %%%%%%%%%%%%% end \noop For the next proposition we will temporarily restore $n$-manifold boundary conditions to the notation. Let $X$ be an $n$-manifold, with $\bd X = Y \cup Y \cup Z$. diff -r bc4086c639b6 -r c57afb230bb1 text/hochschild.tex --- a/text/hochschild.tex Mon Dec 12 10:37:50 2011 -0800 +++ b/text/hochschild.tex Mon Dec 12 15:01:37 2011 -0800 @@ -218,7 +218,10 @@ to distance $\ep$ from *. (Move right or left so as to shrink the blob.) Extend to get a chain map $f: F_*^\ep \to F_*^\ep$. -By Lemma \ref{support-shrink}, $f$ is homotopic to the identity. +By Corollary \ref{disj-union-contract}, +$f$ is homotopic to the identity. +(Use the facts that $f$ factors though a map from a disjoint union of balls +into $S^1$, and that $f$ is the identity in degree 0.) Since the image of $f$ is in $J_*$, and since any blob chain is in $F_*^\ep$ for $\ep$ sufficiently small, we have that $J_*$ is homotopic to all of $\bc_*(S^1)$.