Polynomial monads and delooping of mapping spaces

  • Michael A. Batanin

    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • Florian De Leger

    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Abstract

We extend some classical results – such as Quillen’s Theorem A, the Grothendieck construction, Thomason’s theorem and the characterisation of homotopically cofinal functors – from the homotopy theory of small categories to polynomial monads and their algebras.

As an application we give a categorical proof of the Dwyer–Hess and Turchin results concerning the explicit double delooping of spaces of long knots.

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Michael A. Batanin, Florian De Leger, Polynomial monads and delooping of mapping spaces. J. Noncommut. Geom. 13 (2019), no. 4, pp. 1521–1576

DOI 10.4171/JNCG/355