
arXiv: 1504.04007
We construct a pairing, which we call factorization homology, between framed manifolds and higher categories. The essential geometric notion is that of a vari-framing of a stratified manifold, which is a framing on each stratum together with a coherent system of compatibilities of framings along links between strata. Our main result constructs labeling systems on disk-stratified vari-framed $n$-manifolds from $(\infty,n)$-categories. These $(\infty,n)$-categories, in contrast with the literature to date, are not required to have adjoints. This allows the following conceptual definition: the factorization homology \[ \int_M\mathcal{C} \] of a framed $n$-manifold $M$ with coefficients in an $(\infty,n)$-category $\mathcal{C}$ is the classifying space of $\cC$-labeled disk-stratifications over $M$.
94 pages, 14 figures; contains an erratum which corrects the statement of the main theorem, based on the non-contractibility of vari-framed automorphisms of the hemispherical disk in higher-dimensions; differs from the published version
\((\infty, n)\)-categories, Moduli problems for topological structures, factorization homology, vari-framed stratified manifolds, exit-path categories, Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms, Mathematics - Category Theory, Geometric Topology (math.GT), Categories of topological spaces and continuous mappings, Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.), Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology), Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Stratifications in topological manifolds, Mathematics - Quantum Algebra, FOS: Mathematics, Algebraic Topology (math.AT), Quantum Algebra (math.QA), Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology, Category Theory (math.CT), Mathematics - Algebraic Topology, striation sheaves, stratified spaces
\((\infty, n)\)-categories, Moduli problems for topological structures, factorization homology, vari-framed stratified manifolds, exit-path categories, Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms, Mathematics - Category Theory, Geometric Topology (math.GT), Categories of topological spaces and continuous mappings, Specialized structures on manifolds (spin manifolds, framed manifolds, etc.), Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology), Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Stratifications in topological manifolds, Mathematics - Quantum Algebra, FOS: Mathematics, Algebraic Topology (math.AT), Quantum Algebra (math.QA), Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology, Category Theory (math.CT), Mathematics - Algebraic Topology, striation sheaves, stratified spaces
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