The Whitehead conjecture for weak S-homotopy equivalences of globular CW-complexes

Let ff be a morphism of globular CW-complexes from XX to YY. A weak S-homotopy equivalence is a morphism that induces a bijection between the 00-skeleta and, for every α,βX0\alpha,\beta\in X^0, a weak homotopy equivalence

P(X,α,β)P(Y,f(α),f(β)).\mathbb{P}(X,\alpha,\beta)\longrightarrow\mathbb{P}(Y,f(\alpha),f(\beta)).

An S-homotopy equivalence is a morphism having an inverse up to dihomotopy. Whitehead conjecture. The following assumptions are equivalent:

  1. ff is a weak S-homotopy equivalence.
  2. ff is an S-homotopy equivalence.

This is the converse of the result that every S-homotopy equivalence is a weak S-homotopy equivalence. The source notes that the conjecture was later solved, so the equivalence is no longer open.

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Philippe Gaucher and Eric Goubault, “Topological Deformation of Higher Dimensional Automata”, arXiv:math/0107060 (2002).

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