# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1323671169 28800 # Node ID ec1c5ccef4827bd206692e910f1743a2873f517d # Parent 86389e393c1721e169a1f05f5091e163ac5f1db9 minor -- Section 7 diff -r 86389e393c17 -r ec1c5ccef482 text/a_inf_blob.tex --- a/text/a_inf_blob.tex Sun Dec 11 21:41:45 2011 -0800 +++ b/text/a_inf_blob.tex Sun Dec 11 22:26:09 2011 -0800 @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ anticlimactically tautological definition of the blob complex. \begin{defn} -The blob complex - $\bc_*(M;\cC)$ of an $n$-manifold $n$ with coefficients in an $A_\infty$ $n$-category is the homotopy colimit $\cl{\cC}(M)$ of \S\ref{ss:ncat_fields}. +The blob complex $\bc_*(M;\cC)$ of an $n$-manifold $M$ with coefficients in +an $A_\infty$ $n$-category $\cC$ is the homotopy colimit $\cl{\cC}(M)$ of \S\ref{ss:ncat_fields}. \end{defn} We will show below @@ -387,7 +387,8 @@ \begin{thm} \label{thm:gluing} -Suppose $X$ is an $n$-manifold, and $X = X_1\cup (Y\times J) \cup X_2$ (i.e. just as with $k=n$ above). Then $\bc(X)$ is homotopy equivalent to the $A_\infty$ tensor product $\bc(X_1) \otimes_{\bc(Y), J} \bc(X_2)$. +Suppose $X$ is an $n$-manifold, and $X = X_1\cup (Y\times J) \cup X_2$ (i.e. take $k=n$ in the above discussion). +Then $\bc(X)$ is homotopy equivalent to the $A_\infty$ tensor product $\bc(X_1) \otimes_{\bc(Y), J} \bc(X_2)$. \end{thm} \begin{proof} @@ -415,7 +416,7 @@ The proof of acyclicity is easier in this case since any pair of decompositions of $J$ have a common refinement. -The proof that these two maps are inverse to each other is the same as in +The proof that these two maps are homotopy inverse to each other is the same as in Theorem \ref{thm:product}. \end{proof}