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Smooth $A_{\infty}$ form on a diffeological loop space

Algebraic Topology 2023-04-07 v9

Abstract

To construct an AA_{\infty}-form for a loop space in the category of diffeological spaces, we have two minor problems. Firstly, the concatenation of paths in the category of diffeological spaces needs a small technical trick (see P.~I-Zemmour \cite{MR3025051}), which apparently restricts the number of iterations of concatenations. Secondly, we do not know a natural smooth decomposition of an associahedron as a simplicial or a cubical complex. To resolve these difficulties, we introduce a notion of a qq-cubic set which enjoys good properties on dimensions and representabilities, and show, using it, that the smooth loop space of a reflexive diffeological space is a h-unital smooth AA_{\infty}-space. In appendix, we show an alternative solution by modifying the concatenation to be stable without assuming reflexivity for spaces nor stability for paths.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08402,
  title  = {Smooth $A_{\infty}$ form on a diffeological loop space},
  author = {Norio Iwase},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08402},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages

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