Classification conjecture for absolutely cartesian cubes of spaces

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Let an nn-cube of spaces be a diagram indexed by the powerset of [n]={0,1,…,n}[n]=\{0,1,\ldots,n\}, and call it absolutely cartesian when every homotopy functor sends it to a homotopy cartesian cube. A map of two (n−1)(n-1)-cubes is an nn-cube whose two constituent (n−1)(n-1)-dimensional faces are the source and target cubes; cubes of these types can be composed along a shared face. Classification conjecture. An nn-cube of spaces is absolutely cartesian if and only if it can be written as either a map of two absolutely cartesian (n−1)(n-1)-cubes or a chain of compositions of nn-cubes of these types. The forward implication is unknown in general; the reverse implication follows from the inductive construction described in the paper, with the square case supplied by the classification theorem proved there.

References

Primary source

Rosona Eldred, “Absolutely homotopy-cartesian squares”, arXiv:1304.1662 (2013).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2013). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0509100.

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