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Cyclic structures and the topos of simplicial sets

Algebraic Geometry 2013-09-03 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

Given a point p of the topos of simplicial sets and the corresponding flat covariant functor F from the small category Delta to the category of sets, we determine the extensions of F to the cyclic category. We show that to each such cyclic structure on a point p of the topos of simplicial sets corresponds a group G(p), that such groups can be noncommutative and that each G(p) is described as the quotient of a left-ordered group by the subgroup generated by a central element. Moreover for any cyclic set X, the fiber (or geometric realization) of the underlying simplicial set of X at p inherits canonically the structure of a G(p)-space. This gives a far reaching generalization of the well-known circle action on the geometric realization of cyclic sets.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0394,
  title  = {Cyclic structures and the topos of simplicial sets},
  author = {Alain Connes and Caterina Consani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0394},
  year   = {2013}
}

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24 pages, 1 Figure

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