a bunch of minor changes
authorScott Morrison <scott@tqft.net>
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:28:06 -0700
changeset 402 853376c08d76
parent 401 a8b8ebcf07ac
child 403 ef36cdefb130
a bunch of minor changes
text/appendixes/smallblobs.tex
text/deligne.tex
text/evmap.tex
text/intro.tex
text/kw_macros.tex
text/ncat.tex
--- a/text/appendixes/smallblobs.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/appendixes/smallblobs.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 \begin{lem}
 \label{lem:CH-small-blobs}
-Fix an open cover $\cU$, and a sequence $\cV_k$ of open covers which are each strictly subordinate to $\cU$. For a given $k$, consider $\cG_k$ the subspace of $C_k(\Homeo(M)) \tensor \bc_*(M)$ spanned by $f \tensor b$, where $f:P^k \times M \to M$ is a $k$-parameter family of homeomorphisms such that for each $p \in P$, $f(p, -)$ makes $b$ small with respect to $\cV_k$. We can choose an up-to-homotopy representative $\ev$ of the chain map of Property \ref{property:evaluation} which gives the action of families of homeomorphisms, which restricts to give a map
+Fix an open cover $\cU$, and a sequence $\cV_k$ of open covers which are each strictly subordinate to $\cU$. For a given $k$, consider $\cG_k$ the subspace of $C_k(\Homeo(M)) \tensor \bc_*(M)$ spanned by $f \tensor b$, where $f:P^k \times M \to M$ is a $k$-parameter family of homeomorphisms such that for each $p \in P$, $f(p, -)$ makes $b$ small with respect to $\cV_k$. We can choose an up-to-homotopy representative $\ev$ of the chain map of Theorem \ref{thm:evaluation} which gives the action of families of homeomorphisms, which restricts to give a map
 $$\ev : \cG_k \subset C_k(\Homeo(M)) \tensor \bc_*(M) \to \bc^{\cU}_*(M)$$
 for each $k$.
 \end{lem}
--- a/text/deligne.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/deligne.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 the proof of a higher dimensional version of the Deligne conjecture
 about the action of the little disks operad on Hochschild cohomology.
 The first several paragraphs lead up to a precise statement of the result
-(Proposition \ref{prop:deligne} below).
+(Theorem \ref{thm:deligne} below).
 Then we sketch the proof.
 
 \nn{Does this generalization encompass Kontsevich's proposed generalization from \cite[\S2.5]{MR1718044}, 
--- a/text/evmap.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/evmap.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@
 We have $\deg(p'') = 0$ and, inductively, $f'' = p''(b'')$.
 %We also have that $\deg(b'') = 0 = \deg(p'')$.
 Choose $x' \in \bc_*(p(V))$ such that $\bd x' = f'$.
-This is possible by \ref{bcontract}, \ref{disjunion} and the fact that isotopic fields
+This is possible by Properties \ref{property:disjoint-union} and \ref{property:contractibility}  and the fact that isotopic fields
 differ by a local relation \nn{give reference?}.
 Finally, define
 \[
--- a/text/intro.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/intro.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -448,6 +448,6 @@
 
 \subsection{Thanks and acknowledgements}
 We'd like to thank David Ben-Zvi, Kevin Costello, Chris Douglas,
-Michael Freedman, Vaughan Jones, Alexander Kirillov, Justin Roberts, Chris Schommer-Pries, Peter Teichner \nn{and who else?} for many interesting and useful conversations. 
+Michael Freedman, Vaughan Jones, Alexander Kirillov, Justin Roberts, Chris Schommer-Pries, Peter Teichner, Thomas Tradler \nn{and who else?} for many interesting and useful conversations. 
 During this work, Kevin Walker has been at Microsoft Station Q, and Scott Morrison has been at Microsoft Station Q and the Miller Institute for Basic Research at UC Berkeley.
 
--- a/text/kw_macros.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/kw_macros.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 \def\spl{_\pitchfork}
 
 %\def\nn#1{{{\it \small [#1]}}}
-\def\nn#1{{{\color[rgb]{.2,.5,.6} \small [#1]}}}
+\def\nn#1{{{\color[rgb]{.2,.5,.6} \small [[#1]]}}}
 \long\def\noop#1{}
 
 % equations
--- a/text/ncat.tex	Sat Jun 26 17:22:53 2010 -0700
+++ b/text/ncat.tex	Sun Jun 27 12:28:06 2010 -0700
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 homeomorphisms to the category of sets and bijections.
 \end{lem}
 
-We postpone the proof \todo{} of this result until after we've actually given all the axioms.
+We postpone the proof of this result until after we've actually given all the axioms.
 Note that defining this functor for some $k$ only requires the data described in Axiom \ref{axiom:morphisms} at level $k$, 
 along with the data described in the other Axioms at lower levels. 
 
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 domain and range, but the converse meets with our approval.
 That is, given compatible domain and range, we should be able to combine them into
 the full boundary of a morphism.
-The following lemma follows from the colimit construction used to define $\cl{\cC}_{k-1}$
+The following lemma will follow from the colimit construction used to define $\cl{\cC}_{k-1}$
 on spheres.
 
 \begin{lem}[Boundary from domain and range]
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
 two maps $\bd: \cC(B_i)\to \cl{\cC}(E)$.
 Then we have an injective map
 \[
-	\gl_E : \cC(B_1) \times_{\\cl{cC}(E)} \cC(B_2) \into \cl{\cC}(S)
+	\gl_E : \cC(B_1) \times_{\cl{\cC}(E)} \cC(B_2) \into \cl{\cC}(S)
 \]
 which is natural with respect to the actions of homeomorphisms.
 (When $k=1$ we stipulate that $\cl{\cC}(E)$ is a point, so that the above fibered product
@@ -184,10 +184,10 @@
 $$
 \caption{Combining two balls to get a full boundary.}\label{blah3}\end{figure}
 
-Note that we insist on injectivity above.
+Note that we insist on injectivity above. \todo{Make sure we prove this, as a consequence of the next axiom, later.}
 
 Let $\cl{\cC}(S)_E$ denote the image of $\gl_E$.
-We will refer to elements of $\\cl{cC}(S)_E$ as ``splittable along $E$" or ``transverse to $E$". 
+We will refer to elements of $\cl{\cC}(S)_E$ as ``splittable along $E$" or ``transverse to $E$". 
 
 If $X$ is a $k$-ball and $E \sub \bd X$ splits $\bd X$ into two $k{-}1$-balls $B_1$ and $B_2$
 as above, then we define $\cC(X)_E = \bd^{-1}(\cl{\cC}(\bd X)_E)$.
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@
 In this section we describe how to extend an $n$-category $\cC$ as described above 
 (of either the plain or $A_\infty$ variety) to an invariant of manifolds, which we denote by $\cl{\cC}$.
 This extension is a certain colimit, and we've chosen the notation to remind you of this.
-That is, we show that functors $\cC_k$ satisfying the axioms above have a canonical extension 
+Thus we show that functors $\cC_k$ satisfying the axioms above have a canonical extension 
 from $k$-balls to arbitrary $k$-manifolds.
 Recall that we've already anticipated this construction in the previous section, 
 inductively defining $\cl{\cC}$ on $k$-spheres in terms of $\cC$ on $k$-balls, 
@@ -912,7 +912,6 @@
 	W = \bigcup_a X_a ,
 \]
 where each closed top-dimensional cell $X_a$ is an embedded $k$-ball.
-
 Given permissible decompositions $x$ and $y$, we say that $x$ is a refinement
 of $y$, or write $x \le y$, if each $k$-ball of $y$ is a union of $k$-balls of $x$.
 
@@ -962,26 +961,26 @@
 Finally, we construct $\cC(W)$ as the appropriate colimit of $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
 
 \begin{defn}[System of fields functor]
-If $\cC$ is an $n$-category enriched in sets or vector spaces, $\cC(W)$ is the usual colimit of the functor $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
+If $\cC$ is an $n$-category enriched in sets or vector spaces, $\cl{\cC}(W)$ is the usual colimit of the functor $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
 That is, for each decomposition $x$ there is a map
-$\psi_{\cC;W}(x)\to \cC(W)$, these maps are compatible with the refinement maps
-above, and $\cC(W)$ is universal with respect to these properties.
+$\psi_{\cC;W}(x)\to \cl{\cC}(W)$, these maps are compatible with the refinement maps
+above, and $\cl{\cC}(W)$ is universal with respect to these properties.
 \end{defn}
 
 \begin{defn}[System of fields functor, $A_\infty$ case]
-When $\cC$ is an $A_\infty$ $n$-category, $\cC(W)$ for $W$ a $k$-manifold with $k < n$ 
+When $\cC$ is an $A_\infty$ $n$-category, $\cl{\cC}(W)$ for $W$ a $k$-manifold with $k < n$ 
 is defined as above, as the colimit of $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
-When $W$ is an $n$-manifold, the chain complex $\cC(W)$ is the homotopy colimit of the functor $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
+When $W$ is an $n$-manifold, the chain complex $\cl{\cC}(W)$ is the homotopy colimit of the functor $\psi_{\cC;W}$.
 \end{defn}
 
-We can specify boundary data $c \in \cC(\bdy W)$, and define functors $\psi_{\cC;W,c}$ 
+We can specify boundary data $c \in \cl{\cC}(\bdy W)$, and define functors $\psi_{\cC;W,c}$ 
 with values the subsets of those of $\psi_{\cC;W}$ which agree with $c$ on the boundary of $W$.
 
 We now give a more concrete description of the colimit in each case.
 If $\cC$ is enriched over vector spaces, and $W$ is an $n$-manifold, 
-we can take the vector space $\cC(W,c)$ to be the direct sum over all permissible decompositions of $W$
+we can take the vector space $\cl{\cC}(W,c)$ to be the direct sum over all permissible decompositions of $W$
 \begin{equation*}
-	\cC(W,c) = \left( \bigoplus_x \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x)\right) \big/ K
+	\cl{\cC}(W,c) = \left( \bigoplus_x \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x)\right) \big/ K
 \end{equation*}
 where $K$ is the vector space spanned by elements $a - g(a)$, with
 $a\in \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x)$ for some decomposition $x$, and $g: \psi_{\cC;W,c}(x)
@@ -992,17 +991,17 @@
 %\nn{should probably rewrite this to be compatible with some standard reference}
 Define an $m$-sequence in $W$ to be a sequence $x_0 \le x_1 \le \dots \le x_m$ of permissible decompositions of $W$.
 Such sequences (for all $m$) form a simplicial set in $\cell(W)$.
-Define $V$ as a vector space via
+Define $\cl{\cC}(W)$ as a vector space via
 \[
-	V = \bigoplus_{(x_i)} \psi_{\cC;W}(x_0)[m] ,
+	\cl{\cC}(W) = \bigoplus_{(x_i)} \psi_{\cC;W}(x_0)[m] ,
 \]
 where the sum is over all $m$-sequences $(x_i)$ and all $m$, and each summand is degree shifted by $m$. 
 (Our homological conventions are non-standard: if a complex $U$ is concentrated in degree $0$, 
 the complex $U[m]$ is concentrated in degree $m$.)
-We endow $V$ with a differential which is the sum of the differential of the $\psi_{\cC;W}(x_0)$
+We endow $\cl{\cC}(W)$ with a differential which is the sum of the differential of the $\psi_{\cC;W}(x_0)$
 summands plus another term using the differential of the simplicial set of $m$-sequences.
 More specifically, if $(a, \bar{x})$ denotes an element in the $\bar{x}$
-summand of $V$ (with $\bar{x} = (x_0,\dots,x_k)$), define
+summand of $\cl{\cC}(W)$ (with $\bar{x} = (x_0,\dots,x_k)$), define
 \[
 	\bd (a, \bar{x}) = (\bd a, \bar{x}) + (-1)^{\deg{a}} (g(a), d_0(\bar{x})) + (-1)^{\deg{a}} \sum_{j=1}^k (-1)^{j} (a, d_j(\bar{x})) ,
 \]
@@ -1021,12 +1020,14 @@
 Then we kill the extra homology we just introduced with mapping 
 cylinders between the mapping cylinders (filtration degree 2), and so on.
 
-$\cC(W)$ is functorial with respect to homeomorphisms of $k$-manifolds.
+$\cC(W)$ is functorial with respect to homeomorphisms of $k$-manifolds. Restricting the $k$-spheres, we have now proved Lemma \ref{lem:spheres}.
 
-It is easy to see that
+\todo{This next sentence is circular: these maps are an axiom, not a consequence of anything. -S} It is easy to see that
 there are well-defined maps $\cC(W)\to\cC(\bd W)$, and that these maps
 comprise a natural transformation of functors.
 
+\todo{Explicitly say somewhere: `this proves Lemma \ref{lem:domain-and-range}'}
+
 \nn{need to finish explaining why we have a system of fields;
 need to say more about ``homological" fields? 
 (actions of homeomorphisms);