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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2019

    starting something

    v1, current

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2019

    have some content added now. Currently there is much overlap with the discussion at configuration space of points, but eventually more details should go here that don’t need to go there

    v1, current

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2019
    Is there a reason to capitalize "cohomotopy"?

    We don't capitalize "cohomology" when we're
    referring to the specific cohomology theory represented by HZ,
    why should "cohomotopy" be capitalized?
    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2019
    • (edited Oct 18th 2019)

    I started to capitalize it when I noticed that expressions like

    “cocycle in cohomotopy cohomology theory”

    are hard to discern, especially for an audience of non-homotopy theorists.

    The rationale should be that “Cohomotopy theory” is a sibling of “K-theory” and “HZ-theory” and generic “E-theories”, etc. For both emphasis and brevity one could well decide to speak of “C-theory”. Short of that, “Cohomotopy theory” seems to be the right name.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2019
    I see.

    I guess one could say "cocycle in cohomotopy"
    just like one says "cocycle in cohomology", "cocycle in K-theory", "cocycle in E-theory",
    as opposed to "cocycle in K-theory cohomology theory".
    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2019
    • (edited Oct 19th 2019)

    Yes, I suppose you and me we’d have no issues with communication on this. But once one steps outside the community of homotopy theorists, one is alerted of the fact that “cohomotopy theory” is not an abstract general as “cohomology theory” is, but instead is a concrete particular, and in fact a special instance of the latter. The expert homotopy theorist understands this and can handle the historically grown exceptions to systematic terminology in his field.

    (Or can they? Part of the previously missed low-hanging fruit we have been picking rests on just the observation that many classical theorems of differential topology are secretly all about Cohomotopy theory without this being made terminologically explicit.)

    People outside of the field of homotopy theory, who typically do not have a clear idea even of the meaning of “homotopy theory”, are easily thrown by “cohomotopy theory” not being anything like a dual to “homotopy theory” (unless one instead means “homotopy homology theory”, and there we go again!)

    If it were sufficient to consider just stable Cohomotopy, I’d be inclined to say “𝕊\mathbb{S}-theory” for it. One thought is that one could say “π \mathbf{\pi}^\bullet-theory” for unstable Cohomotopy. Maybe not that bad? Or “S S^\bullet-theory”? I am undecided.

    Anyway, I hope that me capitalizing Cohomotopy theory causes no harm to the experts, while potentially helping the outsiders (who mostly are experts themselves, just not in homotopy theory…)

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2019
    I think it makes sense to transfer some part of the comment #6 to the entry cohomotopy.
    Currently the title of this entry is not capitalized, by the way (which is what confused me in the first place).
    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2019

    I see, thanks for saying. Will be editing later.

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2019

    Hi Dmitri, so thanks for the prodding. I have now tried to add respective remarks in the entry cohomotopy (where this belongs more properly). Let’s have any further discussion on this general point in the respective thread there!