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A K(Z,4) in nature

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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).
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