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

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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,β∈X0\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.

References

Primary source

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

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