Planar non-formality of the little discs operad in characteristic two
Algebraic Topology
2018-11-08 v2
Abstract
We show that the little discs operad is not formal over as a planar (or non-symmetric) operad. We compute explicitly the homological obstruction using as chain model the cells of the spineless cacti operad
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@article{arxiv.1807.11671,
title = {Planar non-formality of the little discs operad in characteristic two},
author = {Paolo Salvatore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11671},
year = {2018}
}
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11 pages