# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1298007472 28800 # Node ID e412b47640d1a45e73e24c61d3e6b100c74f53c3 # Parent f8add4477ca2f0848a951405b3bd4a0cbf0eb1e1 clarified what's small and what's not in the proof of the small blob lemma for BT_* diff -r f8add4477ca2 -r e412b47640d1 text/evmap.tex --- a/text/evmap.tex Mon Feb 14 09:14:26 2011 +1100 +++ b/text/evmap.tex Thu Feb 17 21:37:52 2011 -0800 @@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ It suffices to show that we can deform a finite subcomplex $C_*$ of $\btc_*(X)$ into $\sbtc_*(X)$ (relative to any designated subcomplex of $C_*$ already in $\sbtc_*(X)$). -The first step is to replace families of general blob diagrams with families that are -small with respect to $\cU$. +The first step is to replace families of general blob diagrams with families +of blob diagrams that are small with respect to $\cU$. +(If $f:P \to \BD_k$ is the family then for all $p\in P$ we have that $f(p)$ is a diagram in which the blobs are small.) This is done as in the proof of Lemma \ref{small-blobs-b}; the technique of the proof works in families. Each such family is homotopic to a sum families which can be a ``lifted" to $\Homeo(X)$. That is, $f:P \to \BD_k$ has the form $f(p) = g(p)(b)$ for some $g:P\to \Homeo(X)$ and $b\in \BD_k$.