A K(Z,4) in nature
Presenter
April 11, 2014
Keywords:
- homotopy type theory
- homotopy types
- von Neumann algebra
MSC:
- 46Lxx
- 55P20
- 55-xx
- 55Pxx
- 55P15
- 55P99
Abstract
Topological spaces and simplicial sets have associated homotopy types (that is, the 1-category of topological spaces maps to the infinity-category of spaces, and so does the 1-category of simplicial sets), but these are not the only kind of mathematical objects that have associated homotopy types. In this talk, I will present a mathematical object (not a topological space) that comes from the theory of von Neumann algebras, and whose associated homotopy type is K(Z,4).