# U. Haifa Topology & Geometry seminar: Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Speaker: Sanjeevi Krishnan (Ohio State University). “Title:  A Kan Condition for Directed Homotopy”

Time: Sunday Jan 30th, 17:00 (Israel Time)

Location: On Zoom

Speaker: Sanjeevi Krishnan (Ohio State University)

Title: A Kan Condition for Directed Homotopy

Abstract.
The Kan condition guarantees that a simplicial set, a formal colimit of abstract simplices, models enough features of a topological space so that classical homotopy theory can be given a completely combinatorial description.  There is a similar such Kan condition for cubical sets, formal colimits of abstract hypercubes.   We present a generalization of the Kan condition suitable for directed homotopy theory, a homotopy theory for spaces with direction (like spacetimes).   Concretely, we present a lifting condition on cubical sets, satisfied by all nerves of small categories, that yields a cubical approximation theorem for directed topology.  Intuitively, this condition can be regarded as some kind of weak higher categorical structure on a cubical set.  A distinguishing feature of the lifting condition is that it is an algebraic lifting condition [Garner, Grandis, Riehl] in the sense that the lifts have to be suitably natural.  One simple application is a cochain-theoretic description of a directed \$1\$-cohomology theory, represented by directed classifying spaces of commutative monoids.

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Meeting ID: 849 8759 1026

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