An infinity operad of normalized cacti

Luciana Basualdo Bonatto, Safia Chettih, Abigail Linton, Sophie Raynor, Marcy Robertson*, Nathalie Wahl

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Abstract

We endow the normalized cacti with the structure of an ∞-operad by showing that its existing composition laws are associative up to all higher homotopies. The higher homotopies are encoded by a new topological operad of bracketed trees which we relate both to an enrichment of the dendroidal category Ω and to the Boardman-Vogt W-construction on the operad of operads.

Original languageEnglish
Article number108107
JournalTopology and Its Applications
Volume316
Pages (from-to)1-54
ISSN0166-8641
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • Cactus operad
  • Infinity operads
  • Operads

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