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The stratified homotopy type of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification

Algebraic Topology 2023-01-05 v3

Abstract

We identify the exit path \infty-category of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification as the nerve of a 11-category defined purely in terms of rational parabolic subgroups and their unipotent radicals. As an immediate consequence, we identify the fundamental group of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification, recovering a result of Ji-Murty-Saper-Scherk, and we obtain a combinatorial incarnation of constructible complexes of sheaves on the reductive Borel-Serre compactification as elements in a derived functor category.

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@article{arxiv.2012.10777,
  title  = {The stratified homotopy type of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification},
  author = {Mikala Ørsnes Jansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10777},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

47 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor revision, v3: final accepted version, some typos corrected