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    • I dropped a comment box over at homotopy category, since I think it might be useful to have the classical definition there, as well as make it entirely clear what "modulo homotopy" means. The only reason I didn't write it up myself is that I actually need a little bit of clarification on how to describe "modulo homotopy" as a dinatural transformation from Hom(-,-) -> [-;-]. There is a coequalizer in the first variable for each fixed second variable. Is this an end, coend, or some sort of weighted limit, etc?
    • I have added to symmetric spectrum (after the definition in components) also discussion of the definition as 𝕊 Sym\mathbb{S}_{Sym}-module objects with respect to Day convolution over Core(FinSet)Core(FinSet) (here).

      I am really in the middle of some editing here, but need to call it quits for tonight.

    • I have finally filled content into the entry derived functor in homological algebra.

      That entry had existed in template form for years, with the intention to eventually take up that content, but clearly I had forgotten to actually put it there after I had written it out on my own web at HAI (schreiber). Now I have copied it over.

    • I gave spectrification its own entry, in order to collect in one place various constructions such as 1-excisive reflection, Joyal’s parameterized sequential spectrification, as well as Lewis-May-Steinberger’s original “polemical definition”.

    • I wrote independent family of sets, mainly as an excuse for recording a proof that the number of ultrafilters on an infinite cardinal κ\kappa is 2 2 κ2^{2^\kappa}.

    • Chenchang Zhu had been running a course titled “higher bundle theory” in Göttingen last semester. It ended up being mostly about Lie groupoids and stacks. She and her students used the relevant nnLab pages as lectures notes, and they added more stuff to these nnLab pages as they saw the need.

      I just learned of this from Chenchang.

      She had created an nnLab page

      which lists the nnLab entries that were used and edited.

      For instance the first one is Lie groupoid and Chenchang Zhu as well as some of her students added some stuff to that entry, such as this section Morphisms of Lie groupoids. Below that they added a section on Morphisms of Lie algebroids. (Maybe some of this could be reorganized a little now.)

    • I added a brief section on Cantor’s theorem for posets to Cantor’s theorem, which in one form says that for posets XX there can be no surjective poset map X2 XX \to 2^X (taking 2={01}2 = \{0 \leq 1\}).

      You might find it amusing to try to prove this yourself in a pleasant way. I found one proof (you can find it here), but it’s possible I was working too hard for it. :-)

    • I have been expanding Idea-section and References-section at smash product of spectra. (I suppose all technical detail should go to the respective entries for the various models of spectra).

      Notice that this is distinct from the entry symmetric smash product of spectra. I think, or thought, it makes sense to keep these separate, but I might easily be convinced otherwise.

    • in another entry I want to be able to point to context extension, so I created a brief entry

    • collected some references at model structure for n-excisive functors and added cross links.

      I had not been aware before that Lydakis also got a symmetric monoidal smash on the model structure for excisive functors.

    • gave minimal Kan fibration some actual content. Definition, list of basic properties, brief indication of their proofs, and some comments on the broader story in the Idea-section.

    • Added some comments to combinatorial spectrum about their relationship to other spectra and to modern "brave new algebra" (moved up out of the query-box discussion).

    • I have cleaned up and then expanded a little the entry simplicial homotopy group.

      (There used to be various suggestions in the entry, in the main text and in the query boxes, that the simplicial homotopy groups should be organized into an nn-groupoid structure. I had complained about that in the query boxes long time back, and they had been sitting there since, now I have removed them all to make the entry not look as awkward anymore. )

    • added to Quillen adjunction the statement how the SSet-enriched version presents adjoint (infinity,1)-functors.

      Also indicated how one shows that a left Quillen functor prserves weak equivalences between cofibrant objects, and dually

    • After having a window open to do edits at shelf for almost the past week, I’ve decided just to hit submit. Would like to get back to this, especially to explain the linear ordering on braids found by Dehornoy.

    • I have added Zurek’s reference

      • Wojciech H. Zurek, Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical, Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 715–775 (2003) quant-ph/0105127 doi

      which is surveying the decoherence approach to the collapse of the wave function and the einselection to interpretation of quantum mechanics.

      The very first reference in the list is at a link at Perimeter institute which is outdated.

    • recent activity made me feel it is time for a new context-cluster floating-table-of-contents: started:

      and included it as a floating TOC into relevant entries.

      (The table itself clearly should be expanded and better organized much more. But it’s maybe a start.)

    • I have added to (infinity,2)-sheaf a section Examples - Codomain fibration / canonical (∞,2)-sheaf with the statement that for 𝒳\mathcal{X} an (,1)(\infty,1)-topos, the \infty-functor

      A𝒳 /A A \mapsto \mathcal{X}_{/A}

      is always an (,2)(\infty,2)-sheaf with respect to the canonical topology.

      (It’s the (,2)(\infty,2)-sheaf of “unstable quasicoherent (,1)(\infty,1)-sheaves”!)

    • Added the statement of Urysohn’s lemma. The stub that had been there listed only a link, which is now rotten (it was to some lecture notes), so I added a planetmath link which ought to be stable.

    • have made explicit the proof that reduced excisive functors are equivalently spectra, here.

    • Greetings, newbie here (which is why I haven't used tags, just haven't figured out how). I'm also new to category theory, but representable functors being described as "functors equivalent to hom-functors" in the hom-functor article and as "functors naturally isomorphic to hom-functors" in the representable functor article is confusing to say the least. As some other sources say it's naturally isomorphic rather than equivalent, I changed the hom-functor article, and added a link for good measure. Again, I'm completely inexperienced at both category theory and nLab, so sorry if I messed anything up!
    • Added more to Dehn twist which had been in a stubby state.

    • For no particularly compelling reason (I had a little time before the Superbowl begins), I wrote compact Hausdorff rings are profinite. (You’ll recall that Tom Leinster wrote on this about a year and a half ago at the Café, here.)

    • I have listed today’s arXiv preprint

      • Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel, Poisson algebras for non-linear field theories in the Cahiers topos, arxiv/1602.00708

      at variational calculus despite the title, as it seems that the construction of presymplectic current after Zuckerman’s idea on geometry of variational calculus is very central to the paper.

    • There was a note at the top of ideal:

      This entry discusseds the notion of ideal in fair generality. For an entry closer to the standard notion see at ideal in a monoid.

      I've removed this, as it seems exactly backwards. The pages are equally standard, but the most common notion of ideal is that of an ideal in a ring, and that is the first thing discussed at ideal, and in very basic terms; but at ideal in a monoid, this is discussed only via rings' being monoids in AbAb, and it's not spelt out.

    • I will be compiling something that ought to work as lecture notes for a course that introduces stable homotopy theory for people with background in homotopy theory, and aimed at understanding the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence, together with some extra material on the modern picture via descent down to Spec(𝕊)Spec(\mathbb{S}).

      Just because as an nnLab entry that fits well into the existing growing lecture note series titled “geometry of physics”, I am putting that now into an entry that is titled

      (as continuation of the previous geometry of physics – homotopy types) but for the time being there won’t be any physics here, except maybe in the guise of some links on further reading as it gets to the meaning of the stratification of Spec(MU)Spec(MU).

      For the moment the entry has mainly just the intended skeleton, I will be adjusting that a little more and then start filling it with serious content.

    • I’m thinking of creating a little page called rigid object about the property of an object of a category having no non-trivial automorphisms. How standard is this terminology? I’ve seen it used in a few places, for example in this paper by Kock et al.. On the other hand, it seems that “rigid object” is also sometimes used to refer to an object of a monoidal category with both left and right duals, as in a rigid monoidal category. Is there any connection between these two usages?

    • I have started an article well-founded coalgebra, where I’m trying to put together some things I’ve learned while reading Paul Taylor’s work. All comments welcome.

    • After receiving Spitters and Toby's answer to my question on the mean value theorem, I begun reading the article "Uniform Calculus and the Law of Bounded Change" by Bridger and Stolzenberg. I started filling up the stub on the fundamental theorem of calculus.

      I have a feeling that the two parts of the fundamental theorem of calculus are different in foundational strength. In particular, I believe that the part of the fundamental theorem of calculus which is Stokes's theorem for the interval [0, 1] is equivalent to the law of bounded change. I am aware that the previous assertion is trivial at present, since of these statements are manifestly true (constructively).
    • I have just now two new master students who are going to look into certain geometric aspects of physics. Also a colleague just asked me for suggestions for a course on “geometry and physics”. I kept pointing to Frankel’s book. That’s great as far as it goes, but it misses on a lot of clarifications available meanwhile.

      So I thought it’s about time that I start making notes for a modern introductory course on

      I put that into the nnLab proper, instead of on my personal web. One reason is that otherwise hyperlinking becomes a pain. Another reason is that this should really not be hidden and reserved somewhere but be out there in the open for everyone to join in. Though I do have a certain strategy in mind, which I would like to ask to follow.

      You’ll see what I mean when you look at the entry. It’s so far just a first sketch of a section outline with some keywords and notes to indicate what is eventually to go there. That’s how far I got tonight. (And I really need to sleep now to be ready for my homological algebra course tomorrow…) But I guess the idea and the intended structure is already visible. Will be expanded and edited in the course of the next weeks.

    • I have copied the nice implication flow chart from Adams’ original paper into the entry, here

    • mentioning it here because I don’t want to sidetrack the other thread, but I went ahead and added some context around that comment from John Baez quoted in virtual knot theory and tried to make it more qualified. Feel free to further adjust the wording.

    • I added the bare statement of the list of conditions to Artin-Lurie representability theorem, and then added the remark highlighting that the clause on “infinitesimal cohesion” implies that the Lie differentiation of any DM nn-stack at any point is a formal moduli problem, hence equivalently an L L_\infty-algebra. Made the corresponding remark more explicit also at cohesive (∞,1)-presheaf on E-∞ rings.

    • Added appropriate axioms for the various definitions of affine space, along with another definition in terms of a single quaternary operation.