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A_infinity-morphisms with several entries

Category Theory 2015-11-30 v1 Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We show that morphisms from n A_infinity-algebras to a single one are maps over an operad module with n+1 commuting actions of the operad A_infinity, whose algebras are conventional A_infinity-algebras. Similar statement holds for homotopy unital A_infinity-algebras. The operad A_infinity and modules over it have two useful gradings related by isomorphisms which change the degree. The composition of A_infinity-morphisms with several entries is presented as a convolution of a coalgebra-like and an algebra-like structures. For this sake notions of lax Cat-span multicategories and multifunctors are introduced. They are lax versions of strict multicategories and multifunctors associated with the monad of free strict monoidal category.

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@article{arxiv.1205.6072,
  title  = {A_infinity-morphisms with several entries},
  author = {Volodymyr Lyubashenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6072},
  year   = {2015}
}

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111 pages

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