Free-monoid description of iterated category constructions on classifying spaces

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Let MM be an ungroup-like abelian monoid, let XX be a topological space, and define SP(X,M)\mathrm{SP}(X,M) to be the free strictly commutative topological monoid generated by XX-many copies of MM, characterized by

map⁡TopAbMon(SP(X,M),Y)≅map⁡Top(X,map⁡AbMon(M,Y))\operatorname{map}_{\mathrm{TopAbMon}}(\mathrm{SP}(X,M),Y)\cong\operatorname{map}_{\mathrm{Top}}(X,\operatorname{map}_{\mathrm{AbMon}}(M,Y))

for every abelian topological monoid YY. Free-monoid conjecture. There is an equivalence

T˙n(BnM)≃B(SP(Sn−1,M)),\dot{\mathcal{T}}^n(\mathbf{B}^nM)\simeq\mathbf{B}(\mathrm{SP}(S^{n-1},M)),

and the right fibration

L˙n(BnM)→T˙n(BnM)\dot{\mathcal{L}}^n(\mathbf{B}^nM)\to\dot{\mathcal{T}}^n(\mathbf{B}^nM)

corresponds to the action of SP(Sn−1,M)\mathrm{SP}(S^{n-1},M) on MM induced by the topological monoid homomorphism SP(Sn−1,M)→SP(∗,M)≅M\mathrm{SP}(S^{n-1},M)\to\mathrm{SP}(*,M)\cong M. This gives a concrete description of the constructions on the classifying (∞,n)(\infty,n)-category BnM\mathbf{B}^nM.

References

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Andrea Bianchi, “Symmetric monoidal extensions and graph cobordisms between finite sets”, arXiv:2509.22575 (2025).

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