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- Join of Simplicial sets
- byHarry Gindi on19th October, 2018 innLab
- I don’t know what’s up, but the page “Join of Simplicial Sets” seems to have been blanked by an anonymous user.
  
  https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/join+of+simplicial+sets
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- Knowledge and belief
- byRichard Williamson on7th February, 2018 in- Mathematics, Physics & Philosophy
- Is your plan to make use of HoTT to refine Ranta’s picture? I would have thought that would definitely be new.
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- A First Idea of Quantum Fields
- byUrs Schreiber on5th November, 2017 in- Latest Changes
- Now on PhysicsForums-Insights: A first Idea of Quantum Field Theory.
  
  The chapters will be appearing incrementally. The first one is at
  
  Mathematical Quantum Feld Theory 1 – Geometry
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- A topos-theoretic look at Steenrod operations
- byGavin Wraith on14th May, 2017 in- Preprints & Publications
- I recently found some notes written in 1992 after receiving a preprint by N.J.Kuhn, Generic Representations of the Finite General Linear Groups and the Steenrod Algebra, I & II, which I am sorry to say disappeared years ago. I realized that some of its results could be recast in a form that would be suggestive for topos-theorists. According to some handwritten notes, Two Theorems of J.Lannes , Frank Adams had known these results. I mention it because it might tickle a reader to verify it for themself. The mod p Steenrod algebra can be described, I believe, as the endo-Hopf-algebra of the graded symmetric algebra of the generic differential graded F_p-vector space. Recall that commutative (dg, ... whatever) algebras are enriched, tensored and cotensored over the Cartesian closed category of commutative (dg ... whatever) coalgebras. This holds in particular for (dg ... whatever) algebras in a topos. For mod 2 forget the differential bit (which gives the Bockstein). The key is the Milnor dual basis description of the Steenrod algebra and the fact that the only extra natural linear operations we have available are got from the Frobenius p-th power.
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- Globular
- byJamie Vicary on10th March, 2016 in- Latest Changes
- In a strict sense, that’s right.
  
  However, in a more relaxed sense, which is more typical of how mathematicians really work, it’s hard to see this as much of a problem. (I don’t claim you’re saying it is a big problem, just explaining our perspective.) Firstly, to what are you comparing a Globular proof - a handwritten proof? Clearly, neither are strictly formal, and the Globular proof has the advantage of being fully explicit. No proof (because proving it by hand is too complicated)? Then Globular wins by default. A HoTT proof in Coq? OK, then maybe HoTT wins, but as we’ve discussed before, there are not that many proofs well-suited to formalization in both Globular and Coq. (Consider the Perko knot isotopy proof, compared to a proof in Coq that uses any sort of non-algebraic structure like a universal property.)
  
  Also, note that handcrafted proofs are often carried out in an informal semistrict style anyway! For example, see a lot of the work of Scott Carter and collaborators on knotted surfaces calculations, which are taking place in a braided monoidal bicategory; they don’t stop to worry too much about the definition of semistrict 4-category, they just let geometry guide them. The same is true for a lot of the Morse-theoretic calculations of people like Chris Douglas, Andre Henriques and Chris Schommer-Pries; for example, Andre Henriques has an explicit sphere eversion proof which takes place formally in a semistrict 6-category.
  
  Also, I would expect that if an expert in some “trusted” definition of 4-category looks at the singularity structure that Globular is using, they would say, “yeah, those rules are in my definition of 4-category, implicitly or explicitly”. And I think often this would be such an easy process, a Globular proof would give them a very good sense of how to construct a proof using their definition. (Of course, it would be nice to talk to some experts (like you Mike!) and see if they agree.) Perhaps more likely would be that they have some proof already in their definition of 4-category, and not see how to write it as a Globular proof. So they might say “hey, your definition of semistrict 4-category is not general enough.” And maybe they would be right (although I don’t think so), time will tell.
  
  Note that even if we had proved that every weak 4-category is equivalent to a semistrict 4-category by our definition, that would only take you half way to fully trusting the Globular formalization: you would also need to prove that the source code of Globular implements the definition correctly. This is far from straightforward; as you know, writing a proof assistant is far more complicated than just “typing in the definition of the logical system”. And Globular is written in Javascript, which does not lend itself to formal verification, to say the least.
  
  (By the way, using Javascript made Globular quite easy (in a relative sense) to write and debug; I don’t think Globular would exist today if we’d tried to write it in a more traditional programming language for computational logic. And if we’d succeeded, you’d have to download some crummy installer to use it, rather than just click on a link in your browser; and it would only exist on some platforms; and nobody would use it. So for many good reasons, being very formal is quite low down our list of priorities at the moment.)
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- Spam attack, deletion of entries
- byTimothy Porter on15th April, 2013 in- Latest Changes
- Look at what has been happening at derivator. The entry was erased and various things put there by an Anonymous Coward. Another one has reinstated the original one!! Has anyone noticed this? I was travelling about the time it happened so my usual check did not occur.
  
  At triangle identities something similar had started. I have rolled back.
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- wall crossing
- byZoran Škoda on18th March, 2013 in- Latest Changes
- I added a new preprint of Kontsevich and Soibleman from few days ago at wall crossing and Donaldson-Thomas invariant. The web page of Aarhus lectures cited as the main website at wall crossing in Aarhus. Can somebody correct the link ?
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- quantum groupoid from a Lie algebra
- byZoran Škoda on13th November, 2012 in- Mathematics, Physics & Philosophy
- In a collaborative work at Institute Ruđer Bošković in Zagreb, which will come out as a preprint soon, we are working on a certain noncommutative Hopf algebroid over a noncommutative base coming from Lie algebra theory. I gave a seminar talk about it in mathematics department in Zagreb and got a remark that our approach is too much coordinate based and that it would be desirable to have this work done using coordinate free approach. I came to a one month visit at l’IHÉS and soon realized that in dual language I can tell the story geometrically, though I still do not know how to prove some of the claims without algebraic coordinate-involving stuff which we had before.
  
  So, a Hopf algebroid is made out of a left bialgebroid, right bialgebroid and an antipode map between them.The left and right bialgebroid have the same underlying algebra, but are different as bimodules and corings. I will leave the discussion of the antipode for another post and here sketch how I geometrically arrive at a left bialgebroid.
  
  So let $G$ be a Lie group with Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ which can be realized as $\mathfrak{g}^L$ , the Lie algebra of left invariant vector fields or the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}^R$ , the Lie algebra of right invariant vector fields; specialization of those vector fields at the unit element $e\in G$ gives the isomorphism of vector spaces with the tangent space $T_e G$ . The universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak{g})$ can be realized also as the algebra of left invariant differential operators $U(\mathfrak{g}^L)$ and as $U(\mathfrak{g}^R)$ . Consider now the algebra $H^L = Diff^\omega$ of formal differential operators at $e$ . That means that you allow finite sums of partial derivatives to any finite order with coefficients which are formal functions, i.e. function supported on an infinitesimal neighborhood of unit element. The usual algebra of (global) differential operators $Diff(G)$ (which contains $U(\mathfrak{g}^L)$ and $U(\mathfrak{g}^R)$ ) is naturally embedded in $Diff^\omega$ , hence it also contains $U(\mathfrak{g}^L)$ and $U(\mathfrak{g}^R)$ . furthermore the images of the left and right copy of the $U(\mathfrak{g})$ mutually commute, what is very important for our story.
  
  Thus we have two maps of $U(\mathfrak{g})$ into $\mathcal{X}^\omega$ , namely
  $Diff^\omega \stackrel\alpha\leftarrow U(\mathfrak{g}) \stackrel\beta\rightarrow Diff^\omega$
  Here $\alpha$ is defined as extension from the vector fields as a homomorphism of associative algebras, while $\beta$ as antihomomorphism of associative algebras.
  
  If we choose a basis in $\mathfrak{g}$ , i.e. we have a frame in $\mathfrak{g}$ , then we can consider two images in $\Gamma \mathcal{F} T G$ , that is a section of the frame bundle of the tangent bundle: every element of the basis goes into the corresponding left or right invariant vector field. Thus there are also two maps
  $\Gamma \mathcal{F} T G \stackrel{\mathcal{F}\alpha}\leftarrow \mathfrak{g} \stackrel{\mathcal{F}\beta}\rightarrow \Gamma \mathcal{F} T G$
  corresponding to the frames by left and right invariant vector fields. Both maps are analytic and the image is the section of a principal $GL_n$ -bundle, hence the difference is a matrix of analytic function on $G$ . Better to say, if $\tau$ is the translation map of the principal bundle then $\tau(\alpha(fr),\beta(fr)) =: \mathcal{O}^{-1}(fr)$ (for a frame fr) defines some invertible matrix $\mathcal{O}$ of analytic functions on $G$ . Of course, by the functoriality, this translation matrix does not depend on the choice of frame. We can compute this matrix in a neighborhood of unit element, and I will explain some concrete formula in a later post.
  
  To be continued…
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- urgent: Ph D fellowship in higher categories
- byZoran Škoda on22nd August, 2012 in- Mathematics, Physics & Philosophy
- I have this information from Vladimir Guletskii. Maybe somebody could post/advertise it on nCafe as well. The deadlines are really soon so it is an urgent information.
  
  The Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Liverpool has one EPSRC DTG studentship award for research leading to a PhD starting on 1 October 2012. Dr Jon Woolf proposes the following PhD research programme for this vacancy to work under his supervision:
  
  Directed homotopy theory and (infinity,1)-categories
  
  Directed homotopy theory studies spaces equipped with some notion of direction or ordering of points; there are several variants but the most relevant one for this project is locally pre-ordered spaces. These are spaces such that the points of each open subset are pre-ordered (suitably compatibly with the topology, and with the other local pre-orders). There are many natural examples: stratified spaces (points in higher codimension strata are deeper), space-time (ordered by causality), geometric simplices (points have the same ‘level’ as the highest vertex in the closure of the face in which they lie), and more generally geometric realisations of simplicial sets.
  
  The initial aim of this project is to study an analogue of Grothendieck’s homotopy hypothesis
  
  ‘homotopy-types are infinity-groupoids, i.e. (infinity,0)-categories’;
  
  namely that ‘directed homotopy types are (infinity,1)-categories’.
  
  (Here, by a directed homotopy type we mean a directed space up to equivalence under an undirected notion of homotopy. Working with directed homotopies is also interesting, but leads to a different theory.) To be more precise, the aim is to set up a model structure on the category of locally pre-ordered spaces which is Quillen equivalent, via directed analogues of the singular simplicial set and geometric realisation functors, to the Joyal model structure on simplicial sets. The fibrant objects of the latter are precisely the quasi-categories, i.e. the simplicial models of (infinity,1)-categories.
  
  The conjectural model structure on locally pre-ordered spaces should have a close connection with well-studied notions in the homotopy theory of stratified spaces (and from this it would derive much of its interest). In particular, the fibrant objects should include Quinn’s homotopically stratified sets, and for these weak equivalence should specialise to stratum-preserving homotopy equivalence.
  
  The Initial applications (CV and Personal Statement on Research) can be emailed to jonwoolf@liverpool.ac.uk
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- EPSRC PhD vacancy in motivic algebraic geometry
- byZoran Škoda on15th November, 2011 in- Mathematics, Physics & Philosophy
- Vladimir Guletskii is asking me to post the links
  
  http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/studentships/EPSRC_PhD_Studentshi.htm
  
  http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADL026/epsrc-phd-studentship
  
  http://homotopical.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/phd-position-in-motivic-homotopy-theory
  
  on a PhD vacancy i motive algebraic geometry at Liverpool. Categorification and stable model categories (with tensor products) are very relevant for the project. One might also want to compare ideas about noncommutative motives which are, according to Volodya, also relevant.
  
  He adds:
  
  There is some difference between the overseas fees and the home fees, but (a) citizens of EU do not have to pay it, and (b) our department here can sort out the difference between fees anyway.
  
  Volodya also calls our attention to the closeness of some relevant content to ideas in John’s presentation
  
  http://ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/Zeta+functions
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