Our work over the past years shows that not only the collection of (for instance) all topological spaces gives rise to a category, but also each topological space can be seen individually as a category by interpreting the convergence relation x −→ x between ultrafilters and points of a topological space X as arrows in X. Naturally, this point of view opens the door to the use of concepts and id...

1 Belian categories 3 1.1 Complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Diagram chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Snake Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 Delta functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

1 Belian categories 3 1.1 Complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Diagram chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Snake Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 Delta functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

For a differential graded k-quiver Q we define the free A∞-category FQ generated by Q. The main result is that the restriction A∞-functor A∞(FQ,A) → A1(Q,A) is an equivalence, where objects of the last A∞-category are morphisms of differential graded k-quivers Q → A. A∞-categories defined by Fukaya [Fuk93] and Kontsevich [Kon95] are generalizations of differential graded categories for which th...

We give a long overdue theory of orientations of G-vector bundles, topological G-bundles, and spherical G-fibrations, where G is a compact Lie group. The notion of equivariant orientability is clear and unambiguous, but it is surprisingly difficult to obtain a satisfactory notion of an equivariant orientation such that every orientable G-vector bundle admits an orientation. Our focus here is on...

Here X is a topological space equal to the union of the closed subset Z and the open complement U , and D(Z), D(X), and D(U) are suitable derived categories of sheaves. The triangulated functors in a recollement must satisfy various conditions, most importantly that (i, i∗), (i∗, i ), (j!, j ), and (j, j∗) are adjoint pairs. The purpose of this note is to point out that, somewhat surprisingly, ...

We introduce a precise notion, in terms of few Schlessinger's type conditions, of extended deformation functors which is compatible with most of recent ideas in the Derived Deformation Theory (DDT) program and with geometric examples. With this notion we develop the (extended) analogue of Schlessinger and obstruction theories. The inverse mapping theorem holds for natural transformations of ext...

We study homological algebra in the abelian category Γ̃, whose objects are functors from finite pointed sets to vector spaces over Fp. The full calculation of Tor ∗ -groups between functors of degree not exceeding p is presented. We compare our calculations with known results on homology of symmetric groups, Steenrod algebra and functor homology computations in the abelian category F of functors...