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Formalize the Hopf Fibration

Open morphismz opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Construct the hopf fibration in such a way that the generator of $\mathbb{S}^3$ is sent to a 3-loop in $\mathbb{S}^2$ constructed using Eckmann-Hilton.

A detailed plan for this may be too much to write out in a comment here. But I'll list a few components that will go into this.

Done or currently being worked on:

  • [x] finish dependent universal property of suspensions
  • [x] "Universal Property of Fibers of maps": build up infrastructure for working with the family of fibers of a map f : A --> B as the initial type family equipped with a section (a : A) --> fib_f (f a). Open tasks
  • [x] show EH is (more or less) the naturality condition of whiskering a 2-path on the left by a 1-path
  • [x] "Eckmann-Hilton in the universe" idea: show that tr sends EH on identifications to EH on homotopies (almost done, missing a few coherences)

Open:

  • [ ] descent for $\mathbb{S}^1$, $\mathbb{S}^2$, $\mathbb{S}^3$ ----- related to issue #1122 . This proof works best the the point and n-loop presentation of spheres, which have yet to be postulated.
  • [ ] characterizing (higher) homotopies between (homotopies) functions with domain $\mathbb{S}^1$,
  • [ ] characterizing homotopies between dependent functions functions with domain $\mathbb{S}^3$.

Quasi-references:

  • a talk presenting the current version of the proof https://morphismz.github.io/talks/2024-04-03-hottuf

morphismz avatar Aug 21 '23 18:08 morphismz