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created Eilenberg-Zilber operad
I started a page on braided monoidal 2-category. Not that I have anything interesting to say on the subject, but I would like to know how to get them as module 2-categories over a monoidal category.
created thin homotopy to service bicategory, at which I added the necessary qualifier 'Hausdorff' to the existence of the quotient of Pi_2 by thin homotopies. There is only a passing mention of the smooth version as I only needed the topological case.
-David Roberts
Added some more text and examples to double category, and moved one reference to n-fold category.
Created unit enriched category.
Created covariant derivative.
I started ordered pair to discuss how one might define such a thing in various foundations of mathematics.
I added a section to Gram-Schmidt process on "categorified Gram-Schmidt" (which would apply to 2-Hilbert spaces). This is illustrated with some representation-theoretic calculations which James Dolan showed me years ago; even though the write-up is still in a raw state, the calculations are way cool and should not be lost to posterity.
… at regular category and skeleton.
I have just posed the question:
If we want to weaken this even further to provide a
simplicial model of, for example, a ((?,2)-category?,
how would we do this?
Would we apply the lifting condition on all but three of
the indicies… and if so which three? (The first, last and ????)
at quasi-category.
Any and all thoughts would be appreciated.
I added an entry on super q-Schur algebras in hopes of luring people over from a MathOverflow question.
I created a page for Riemannian metric based on a "blog post": http://deltaepsilons.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/riemannian-metrics-and-connections/ and a suggestion of Urs Schreiber.
I added an "idea" to loop space . Not claiming, though, that everybody will find this idea the most helpful one. But to some extent I think it is.
I had another look at delooping
Eric, you drew some nice-looking diagrams there in the discussion section. At some point in the discussion I say that I don't understand these diagram. I still don't! :-)
It would be nice if we could converge on this, because then we could move the diagrams out of the discussion into the text as a useful illustration.
Could you describe in words what you mean these diagrams are depicting? I am guessing that probably we are just thinking of what an arrow and a point means in such a diagram differently. Let's sort this out. If we agree that the diagrams make sense they should feature more prominently, if we come to the conclusion that there is some misunderstanding we should put a clearer warning to the reader.
I added a section to idempotent monad on the idempotent monad associated with a monad.
I have been polishing the entry Chevalley-Eilenberg algebra on my personal web a bit.
I thought it would be good to announce here what it is that I am currently thinking about. If nothing else, this will explain which entries you all see me working on here and thereby maybe facilitate interaction more.
So currently I am thinking about the sought-for proposition that is now stated in the section Properties at the above entry. It sure looks like something like this proposition ought to be right, but I am not there yet.
I thought of it and then moved the material on Hamiltonian mechanics from symplectic geometry to its own entry at Hamiltonian mechanics
Todd started Schur functor. I added internal links and wrote linear category to be the target of one of them.
added the classical article by Bott-Shulman-Stasheff to the list of references at simplicial deRham complex
I was kindly being alerted that the following long-awaited references are now available:
Paul Goerss's account of the Hopkins-Miller-Lurie theorem, now linked to at A Survey of Elliptic Cohomology
Lurie part VI on little cubes oo-operads, now linked to from Jacob Lurie
Started a list at n-category of all the existing definitions of higher categories and comparisons between them. I'm sure I'm missing some, so please help!
Opened a page at higher order proposition.
expanded the previously pitiful monomorphism
Discussion resumes at the bottom of graph.
Added some references to Plebanski formulation of gravity
created stubs for gravity as a BF-theory and first-order formulation of gravity
On request by David Corfield, I wrote a bit about symplectic geometry and classical hamiltonian mechanics
I borrowed a nice description of Hasse diagrams from Toby.
I weakened the definition of covering relation for directed graphs so that satisfy the covering relation if their is an edge and no other path from to . The condition that there is no with edges and is too strong.
Following discussion here <a href="http://www.math.ntnu.no/~stacey/Vanilla/nForum/comments.php?DiscussionID=244&page=1#Item_3" >here</a>, I decided it made sense to have an <a href="http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/FAQ#how_can_i_get_a_personal_section_of_the_nlab_14" >FAQ entry on personal pages.</a> It doesn't say much at the moment, but I guess the only important piece of information is that you have to write Urs.
created pages for Tony Pantev and Ludmil Katzarkov
(not much there yet, am just following the idea that it would be nice that most authors whose references are cited in some entry also have a page with at least a link to their website)
created page for Lawrence Breen
John put in a definition at Grassmann algebra. Should these be distinguished from exterior algebra?
I added the case of Set-enriched category theory to the example section of Cauchy complete category (thanks to David Corfield for fixing my LaTeX errors), and inserted the definition at Karoubi envelope. There is an issue of choosing how to split idempotents which someone like Toby might want to say something about.
Our new contributor Aaron F would like people to check this at induced representation.
created page for Johan Louis Dupont, cited at simplicial deRham complex
(given that at that entry I am trying to merge some of Dupont's work with some of that of Anders Kock, it is curious that JL Dupont and Anders Kock are decade-long colleagues in Aarhus, as Anders Kock kindly reminds me a minute ago)
To the entry on regular category I added a brief note describing an application of this idea and the calculus of relations to a paper of Knop. For the future I will try to flesh this note out as well as add a page on tensor categories.
By the way, does the definition of a tensor category have to include linearity? It seems that the definitions vary depending on where one looks (e.g. whether the monoidal structure is an additive functor). Thanks.
created bisimplicial object with two useful props.
Also linked to it from simplicial object
I started an entry simplicial deRham complex
on differential forms on simplicial manifolds.
In parts this is for me to collect some standard references and definitions (still very incomplete on that aspect, help is appreciated -- is there a good reference by Dupont that is online available?)
and in parts this is to discuss the deeper abstract-nonsense origin of this concept.
I am thinking that
with differential forms understood in the synthetic context as just the image under Dold-Kan of the cosimplicial algebra of functions on the simplicial object of infinitesimal simplices in some space
it follows that the simplicial deRham complex of a simplicial object is just the image under Dold-Kan of the cosimplicial algebra of functions on the realization of the bisimplicial object of infinitesimal simplices in the given simplicial space.
This looks like it is prretty obvious, once one stares at the coend-formula, but precisely that makes me feel a bit nervous. Maybe i am being too sloppy here. Would appreciate you eyeballing this.
Lars Kindler has joined to edit D-module.
I mentioned these at higher category theory and (n,n)-category, where it had been implied that the latter were as far as one could go in increasing the second parameter.
I think Ab-enriched category is a better name for the page than ringoid.
Jason Dusek joined and inspired me to start 2-rig.
I wrote Poincare group as an entree to the project of carrying on in nLab the blog discussion on unitary representations of the Poincare group. I'm not a specialist of course, so I ask the experts to please examine for accuracy.
I expanded and polished the discussion of the abstract definition of of G-principal oo-bundles in an arbitrary (oo,1)-topos at principal infinity-bundle.
Parts of this could/should eventually be moved/copied to action and action groupoid, but I won't do that now.
I'd be interested in comments. One would expect that for the case that the ambient (oo,1)-topos is Top this style of definition should be well known in the literature, but I am not sure if it is. In fact, the examples listed further below in the entry, (the construction by Quillen and the Stasheff-Wirth construction) seems to indicate that this very simple very general nonsense picture has not been conceived as such before. Could that be true?
I've removed the request for help link from the main contents. It didn't get used much (though I got answers to my questions there!). Since we have yet to actually delete a page, rather than just blank the request for help page I've put a pointer to where one can ask questions (pretty similar to that on the FAQ).