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There is no Cazanave's Theorem for punctured affine space

Algebraic Topology 2024-10-04 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In his thesis, Cazanave proved that the set of naive A1\mathbb{A}^1-homotopy classes of endomorphisms of the projective line admits a monoid structure whose group completion is genuine A1\mathbb{A}^1-homotopy classes of endomorphisms of the projective line. In this very short note we show that such a statement is never true for punctured affine space An{0}\mathbb{A}^n\setminus\{0\} for n2n \ge 2 .

Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.02668,
  title  = {There is no Cazanave's Theorem for punctured affine space},
  author = {Thomas Brazelton and William Hornslien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02668},
  year   = {2024}
}

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3 pages, comments welcome!

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