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From: jim stasheff <stasheff@email.unc.edu>
To: categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Stasheff's question
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:16:52 -0300 (ADT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0310031416320.7164-100000@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)


Peter May wrote:
>
> The comparison between Segal categories and A infinity categories
> works in close analogy with the comparison between A infinity spaces
> (for any A infinity operad) and Segal's special Delta spaces.  The
> topological comparison was worked out in papers of Thomason and
> Fiedorowicz, themselves analogues of earlier work of Thomason and
> myself comparing infinite loop space machines.  The categorical
> comparison will appear in a paper I'm writing --- I've talked about
> it at MSRI and the Newton Institute.   Peter May

Yes, that's what I had in mind
question is: does it carry over to (Fukaya) A_\infty cats and Segal
cats?

jim







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2003-10-03 17:16 jim stasheff [this message]
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2003-10-02 14:42 Peter May

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