Hi! thanks for your quick reply. 2016-06-16 1:13 GMT+02:00 Joyal, André : > The word "synthetic" suggests that a new kind of homotopy theory is born, That is exactly the point. When speaking about Guillaume's work, you may want to stress that his result is completely new, because his sphere is not the classical sphere, and not even a shadow of the classical sphere in any reasonable sense. You could call it the synthetic sphere, or find a better wording. But a name is clearly needed for this new sphere and for this new homotopy theory. andré H