The generalized pushout conjecture for little-cube categories
Let be an appropriately chosen -operad, with denoting the little -cube operad, and suppose its spaces fit together freely enough. Let -categories and -groupoids be the corresponding categories and grouplike categories.
Generalized pushout conjecture. There is a notion of pushout of -categories such that the loop space functor from spaces to -groupoids takes pushouts to pushouts. The little -cube operad 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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