Homotopy composition of cospans

DOI10.1142/S0219199716500474MaRDI QIDQ5354374zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joachim Kock, David I. Spivak

Publication date 1 September 2017

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.08739

zbMATH Keywords

cospanFrobenius algebrahomotopy pushout

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Category-theoretic methods and results in associative algebras (except as in 16D90) (16B50) Limits and colimits (products, sums, directed limits, pushouts, fiber products, equalizers, kernels, ends and coends, etc.) (18A30) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

Abstract: It is well known that the category of finite sets and cospans, composed by pushout, contains the universal {em special} commutative Frobenius algebra. In this note we observe that the same construction yields also general commutative Frobenius algebras, if just the pushouts are changed to homotopy pushouts.

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