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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeSep 28th 2018
    • (edited Sep 28th 2018)

    At the end (at 42:11) of his Voevodsky Memorial talk Pierre Deligne poses a question (for the HoTT community?).

    Given α:π n+k(S n)\alpha: \pi_{n+k}(S^n), or an element in [S n+k,S n][S^{n+k}, S^n] does it induce [α]:a= naa= n+ka[\alpha]: a =_n a \to a =_{n+k} a, and do so universally?

    a= naa =_n a for a:Aa:A stands for the iterated loop space of AA, Ω n(A)\Omega^n(A).

    So is he asking whether α\alpha induces a map [[S n,A],[S n+k,A]][[S^n, A], [S^{n+k}, A]] (which it surely does), and so a map from Ω n(A)\Omega^n(A) to Ω n+k(A)\Omega^{n+k}(A)?

    What’s the challenge?

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorAli Caglayan
    • CommentTimeSep 28th 2018
    • (edited Sep 28th 2018)

    The maps of fundamnetal groups are truncated to the set level. I think he is asking if the truncation can be rid of. Can this be extended to a map of untruncated loop spaces.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeSep 28th 2018

    There was some confusion at the meeting about this too. It’s already an interesting question at the level Ali interpreted it; but it seems that Deligne intended his “π n+k(S n)\pi_{n+k}(S^n)” to refer to the homotopy groups of spheres as defined in ZFC. In other words, if we know classically that we have some element of a homotopy group of spheres, can we use that to define in type theory a corresponding map on loop spaces.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2018

    And what can we say to the question as posed in #2 and #3? Is there something one can ’reasonably’ ask for, that can’t be delivered?

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorMike Shulman
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2018

    If it’s “reasonable” to ask for a map π n+k(S n)Ω nXΩ n+kX\pi_{n+k}(S^n) \to \Omega^n X \to \Omega^{n+k} X, then yes; I don’t think we can deliver that. But even in ZFC such a map doesn’t really exist canonically. You can choose a representative of any απ n+k(S n)\alpha \in \pi_{n+k}(S^n), which in turn induces a map Ω nXΩ n+kX\Omega^n X \to \Omega^{n+k} X, and equivalent representatives of α\alpha induce homotopic maps, but not uniquely homotopic ones. So the axiom of choice can give you a particular map, but it’s not canonically determined.