Homotopy commutativity of the homotopy shuffle product

Let AA^\bullet be a strict simplicial graded commutative DGA indexed by II, and let

Bred(Cˇ(I,A))B_{red}(\check{C}(I,A^\bullet))

be the reduced bar construction equipped with the homotopy shuffle product.

Homotopy shuffle commutativity conjecture. The homotopy shuffle product is homotopy commutative for every such AA^\bullet. Consequently, the induced product

H(μ):H(Bred(Cˇ(I,A)))H(Bred(Cˇ(I,A)))H(Bred(Cˇ(I,A)))H^\bullet(\mu):H^\bullet(B_{red}(\check{C}(I,A^\bullet)))\otimes H^\bullet(B_{red}(\check{C}(I,A^\bullet))) \to H^\bullet(B_{red}(\check{C}(I,A^\bullet)))

is graded commutative.

The author states that neither homotopy commutativity of the product nor graded commutativity of the induced cohomology product is known in this generality. In characteristic zero, a Thom–Whitney construction provides a commutative DGA associated with a strict simplicial graded commutative DGA.

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Primary source

Tomohide Terasoma, “The Artin-Schreier DGA and the F_p fundamental group of an F_p scheme”, arXiv:0905.1758 (2009).

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