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From: Guillaume Brunerie <guillaume.brunerie@gmail.com>
To: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
Cc: Homotopy Type Theory <HomotopyTypeTheory@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HoTT] Real Projective space (and other projective spaces too)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:36:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFJ3QWLGbeUE16CR6y0Ahvbk=vzdYiOFL9hJ6eN9=g0LaX+2rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg93fox9.fsf@uwo.ca>

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Ah, indeed, I misread the proposed definition.

Den lör 18 aug. 2018 21:35Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> skrev:

> The extra identifications are one of the problems, but a more
> fundamental problem is that while the north pole has been identified
> with the south pole, no other pairs of antipodal points have been
> identified.
>
> Dan
>
> On Aug 18, 2018, Guillaume Brunerie <guillaume.brunerie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As Dan said, this is not a correct definition of RP^n.
> >
> > More specifically, the issue is that you identified the points "map
> south" and "map north" in two different ways: "glue south north" and
> > "inv (glue north south)".
> > You could try to add another constructor
> > glue² : (x y : S^n) -> glue x y = inv (glue y x)
> > but of course you're now again identifying them in two different ways,
> so you've just shifted the problem one dimension up.
> >
> > Den lör 18 aug. 2018 16:46Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> skrev:
> >
> >  On Aug 18, 2018, Ali Caglayan <alizter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > This screams to me an alternative definition for ℝℙⁿ (and maybe
> ℂℙⁿ,...)
> >  >
> >  > Inductive RP (n:ℕ) :=
> >  > | map : Sⁿ -> RP n
> >  > | glue : (x y:S⁰) -> map(in x) = map(in y)
> >  >
> >  > Where in : S⁰→Sⁿ is the obvious inclusion map.
> >
> >  That HIT would be S^n with four edges attached: two edges connecting
> >  the north pole to the south pole, and a self-loop at each pole. So
> >  homotopically it would be S^n wedged with a wedge of four circles.
> >
> >  To get the right space with the right bundle over it, see:
> >
> >  The real projective spaces in homotopy type theory
> >  Ulrik Buchholtz, Egbert Rijke
> >  https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05770
> >
> >  Dan
> >
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      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-19  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-18 14:30 Ali Caglayan
2018-08-18 14:33 ` [HoTT] " Ali Caglayan
2018-08-18 14:45 ` [HoTT] " Dan Christensen
2018-08-18 16:17   ` Guillaume Brunerie
2018-08-18 19:35     ` Dan Christensen
2018-08-19  6:36       ` Guillaume Brunerie [this message]

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