Braided injections and double loop spaces

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6614MaRDI QIDQ2796093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Schlichtkrull, Mirjam Solberg

Publication date 23 March 2016

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1101

zbMATH Keywords

braided monoidal categories diagram spaces double loop spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

Abstract: We consider a framework for representing double loop spaces (and more generally E-2 spaces) as commutative monoids. There are analogous commutative rectifications of braided monoidal structures and we use this framework to define iterated double deloopings. We also consider commutative rectifications of E-infinity spaces and symmetric monoidal categories and we relate this to the category of symmetric spectra.

Review text

The authors prove a rigidification result for braided monoidal categories and for spaces equipped with an action of the little 2-disks operad. In more details, they introduce a category \(\mathfrak{B}\) of braided injections. This is equipped with the structure of a braided monoidal category. It follows that the category of \(\mathfrak{B}\)-spaces (i.e., functors from \(\mathfrak{B}\) to spaces) is equipped with a Day type braided monoidal tensor product structure and similarly for the category of \(\mathfrak{B}\)-categories. The rigidification result takes the form of an equivalence between the homotopy theory of braided monoidal categories and that of commutative monoids in \(\mathfrak{B}\)-categories and similarly an equivalence between the homotopy theory of a certain category of \(E_2\)-spaces (for a specific choice of \(E_2\)-operad) and that of commutative monoids in \(\mathfrak{B}\)-spaces. An application of this rigidification result is to produce an explicit braided monoidal category that models the \(E_2\)-monoidal category of spaces over a fixed \(E_2\)-space.

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