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   • CommentAuthorUrs
   • CommentTimeMay 11th 2010
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   Format: MarkdownItexadded a section <a href="http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/infinitesimal+object#SpacOfInfSimpl">Spaces of infinitesimal simplices</a>

   added a section Spaces of infinitesimal simplices

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   Format: MarkdownItexFYI: If you have a typo in the subject of a post, you can change it by editing the original comment.

   FYI: If you have a typo in the subject of a post, you can change it by editing the original comment.

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   Format: MarkdownItexThanks, Eric! I didn't know that, but did wonder about it. Good, so I fixed the typo.

   Thanks, Eric! I didn’t know that, but did wonder about it. Good, so I fixed the typo.

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   Format: MarkdownItexI am now pretty much through with completing and polishing that section on <a href="http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/infinitesimal+object#SpacOfInfSimpl">Spaces of infinitesimal simplices</a>. I feel this improves considerably in its detail and exposition style over stuff I had previously typed at [[infinitesimal singular simplicial complex]] and eventually I will try to go through that entry and polish it accordingly. For the moment though I would just want to advertize: not that i think this is anything close to perfect, but in case anyone ever wondered where the heck actually the magic occurs in Anders Kock's discussion of combinatorial differential forms in a smooth topos: the crucial argument is a very elementary and simple one, which needs neither the (internal) topos (logic) perspective nor in fact the comparatively complicated (it seems) formulas from Breen-Messing's article, but is really just a simple statement about certain very simple finitely-presented commutative cosimplicial $\mathbb{R}$-algebras. This I try to expose at <a href="http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/infinitesimal+object#SpacOfInfSimpl">Spaces of infinitesimal simplices</a>. I am not claiming that my exposition is not in need of more improvement, but it seems to me that this is a useful clarification (and if only a more focused highlighting) of some things one may find in some literature.

   I am now pretty much through with completing and polishing that section on Spaces of infinitesimal simplices.

   I feel this improves considerably in its detail and exposition style over stuff I had previously typed at infinitesimal singular simplicial complex and eventually I will try to go through that entry and polish it accordingly.

   For the moment though I would just want to advertize: not that i think this is anything close to perfect, but in case anyone ever wondered where the heck actually the magic occurs in Anders Kock’s discussion of combinatorial differential forms in a smooth topos: the crucial argument is a very elementary and simple one, which needs neither the (internal) topos (logic) perspective nor in fact the comparatively complicated (it seems) formulas from Breen-Messing’s article, but is really just a simple statement about certain very simple finitely-presented commutative cosimplicial $\mathbb{R}$-algebras. This I try to expose at Spaces of infinitesimal simplices. I am not claiming that my exposition is not in need of more improvement, but it seems to me that this is a useful clarification (and if only a more focused highlighting) of some things one may find in some literature.

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   Format: MarkdownItexIt was stated below definition 2.1 that an internally small object is an externally small object (the corresponding nLab page about tiny objects was linked). I believe that this is incorrect, so I edited the paragraph accordingly. Nico Beck <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/infinitesimal+object/48">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/infinitesimal+object/48">v48</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/infinitesimal+object">current</a>

   It was stated below definition 2.1 that an internally small object is an externally small object (the corresponding nLab page about tiny objects was linked). I believe that this is incorrect, so I edited the paragraph accordingly.

   Nico Beck

   diff, v48, current