The generalized pushout conjecture for little-cube categories

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Let C{\cal C} be an appropriately chosen A∞A_{\infty}-operad, with C1{\cal C}_1 denoting the little 11-cube operad, and suppose its spaces fit together freely enough. Let C\mathcal C-categories and C\mathcal C-groupoids be the corresponding categories and grouplike categories.

Generalized pushout conjecture. There is a notion of pushout of C{\cal C}-categories such that the loop space functor from spaces to C{\cal C}-groupoids takes pushouts to pushouts. The little 11-cube operad C1{\cal C}_1 is conjectured to be an appropriate choice.

This would give a categorical pushout model for loop spaces and extend the classical generalized Seifert–van Kampen perspective. The source does not provide evidence of resolution.

References

Primary source

Carlos Simpson, “Effective generalized Seifert-Van Kampen: how to calculate ΩX”, arXiv:q-alg/9710011 (1997).

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