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The little -disks operad, , along with its variants, is an important tool in homotopy theory. It is defined in terms of configurations of disjoint -dimensional disks inside the standard unit disk in and it was initially conceived for detecting and understanding -fold loop spaces. Its many uses now stretch across a variety of disciplines including topology, algebra, and mathematical physics. In this paper, the authors develop the details of Kontsevich's proof of the formality of little -disks operad over the field of real numbers. More precisely, one can consider the singular chains on as well as the singular homology of . These two objects are operads in the category of chain complexes. The formality then states that there is a zig-zag of quasi-isomorphisms connecting these two operads. The formality also in some sense holds in the category of commutative differential graded algebras. The authors additionally prove a relative version of the formality for the inclusion of the little -disks operad in the little -disks operad when .

Book's by Ismar Voli

Cubical Homotopy Theory

Cubical Homotopy Theory

Formality of the Little $N$-disks Operad

Formality of the Little $N$-disks Operad

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