Commutative cubes from their edge maps #
A commutative cube indexed by a type ι in a category C is a functor Finset ι ⥤ C on the
finite subsets of ι, ordered by inclusion. Such a cube is usually given by its edges only: an
object X S at every vertex, a map X S ⟶ X T along every edge, that is, whenever T covers
S (S ⋖ T, so T = insert a S with a ∉ S), and the condition that every square face
commutes. This file builds the cube from these data, CategoryTheory.Functor.ofCubeEdges: the
map along an inclusion S ⊆ T is the composite of edge maps along any maximal chain from S to
T, and the commuting faces make it independent of the chain.
Likewise a map of cubes only needs to commute with the edge maps:
CategoryTheory.NatTrans.ofCubeEdges builds a natural transformation between functors
Finset ι ⥤ C from components that are natural along every edge.
These are the analogues for the Boolean cube of CategoryTheory.Functor.ofSequence and
CategoryTheory.NatTrans.ofSequence for the ordered set ℕ. The cube of resolutions of a link
diagram, whose vertices are the circle tensors of the smoothings and whose edge maps are the
saddle maps, is a cube of this kind; its signed totalization
CategoryTheory.Functor.cubeComplex is the Khovanov complex.
Main definitions #
CategoryTheory.Functor.ofCubeEdges d hd: the commutative cube with edge mapsd, whose square faces commute byhd.CategoryTheory.NatTrans.ofCubeEdges app naturality: the map of cubes with componentsapp, natural along every edge.
Main results #
CategoryTheory.Functor.ofCubeEdges_map_of_covBy: along an edge the cube has the given edge map.
References #
- M. Khovanov, A categorification of the Jones polynomial, Duke Math. J. 101 (2000), §3.
- D. Bar-Natan, On Khovanov's categorification of the Jones polynomial, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 2 (2002), §2.
The composite of edge maps from X S to X T along a maximal chain from S to T, whose
first step is chosen arbitrarily; it does not depend on this choice once the square faces of
edge maps commute. This is the map along S ⊆ T of CategoryTheory.Functor.ofCubeEdges.
Instances For
The empty chain from S to itself gives the identity.
Once the square faces commute, the composites of edge maps along chains compose.
The commutative cube Finset ι ⥤ C with vertices X S and with the edge map d h along
every edge h : S ⋖ T, given that every square face of edge maps commutes (hd). Along an
inclusion S ⊆ T it is the composite of the edge maps along any maximal chain from S to
T.
Instances For
Along an edge S ⋖ T, the cube ofCubeEdges d hd is the edge map d.
Along the edge from S to insert a S, for a ∉ S, the cube ofCubeEdges d hd is the edge
map d.
The map of cubes F ⟶ G with components app, which need only be natural along the edges
S ⋖ T of the cube.
Instances For
The components of NatTrans.ofCubeEdges app naturality are app.