Boavida-Weiss equivalence conjecture for the PL Stiefel space

Let nm3n-m\geq 3. Write Vn,mpl=PLn/PLn,m\mathrm{V}^{pl}_{n,m}=\mathrm{PL}_n/\mathrm{PL}_{n,m} for the PL Stiefel space, and let Operadh(Em,En)\mathrm{Operad}^h(E_m,E_n) be the derived mapping space of the little discs operads, pointed at the inclusion EmEnE_m\subset E_n. Boavida-Weiss equivalence conjecture. The natural map

Vn,mplOperadh(Em,En)\mathrm{V}^{pl}_{n,m}\to\mathrm{Operad}^h(E_m,E_n)

is an equivalence. This would identify the smoothing-theoretic and operadic deloopings of disc embedding spaces and would imply compatibility of the operadic delooping with the little discs action for n5n\geq 5.

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Paolo Salvatore and Victor Turchin, “On the smoothing theory delooping of disc diffeomorphism and embedding spaces”, arXiv:2407.14699 (2026).

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