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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2010
    • (edited May 25th 2010)

    created nerve theorem

    linked to it from homotopy groups in an (infinity,1)-topos, where it had implicitly been mentioned before, but not made explicit.

    Apart from stating the theorem, I wrote a section that explains what’s going on from the nPOV. As far as I can see, at least.

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2010

    For which classes of paracompact spaces is one assured of the existence of a good cover?

    Manifolds, I presume, and CW complexes. What else?

    The nerve theorem is obviously a wonderful result in view of hoped-for higher-dimensional van Kampen theorems.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010
    • (edited May 26th 2010)

    For which classes of paracompact spaces is one assured of the existence of a good cover?

    I was hoping my local expert on good covers would have helped me with that by now, but he didn’t yet. But let’s try to sort this out.

    At least meanwhile I have polished and expanded the proof on my personal web that relates the nerve theorem to the left adjoint of the constant \infty-stack functor here.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010

    Just to expand on the case of manifolds for a moment: any paracompact manifold admits a Riemannian metric, and for any point in a Riemannian manifold there is a geodesically convex neighborhood (any two points in the neighborhood are connected by a geodesic in the neighborhood; see for example the remark after lemma 10.3 in Milnor’s Morse Theory, page 59). That should do the trick, since it is immediate that a nonempty intersection of two geodesically convex regions is also geodesically convex, hence contractible.

    I’d have to think a bit to convince myself of the case for CW complexes.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010

    Thanks, Todd. I moved that remark to here for the moment. But will have to call it quits now. See you tomorrow!

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010

    I added what is hopefully a more or less correct proof that CW complexes admit good covers to good open cover (under Properties).

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2010

    Thanks, Todd. Very nice!

    I added formal Proposition/Proof environments.

    For completeness, I also added the statement of the corollary that hence the category of paracompact manifolds and various of its subcategories admit coverages by good open covers.

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2015

    I added several references to the nerve theorem article.

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2021

    added hyperlink to

    • Karol Borsuk, On the imbedding of systems of compacta in simplicial complexes , Fund. Math. 35, (1948) 217–234 (dml:213158)

    diff, v17, current

    • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2021
    • (edited Jun 30th 2021)

    Added more explicit pointer to McCord 67, Thm. 2.

    diff, v18, current

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2021

    also to the page number in Weil 52, p. 141

    diff, v18, current

    • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorDmitri Pavlov
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2021
    • (edited Jun 30th 2021)

    I fixed the section number in a reference to Weil’s paper that I added once: it’s Section 5, not 6. Weil also has a relative version formulated as a Corollary: if two maps f,g send every x∈X to some U_i⊂Y, then f and g are homotopic.