2 papers
math.AT2025
Associahedra, Multiplihedra and units in form
Norio Iwase
A higher associativity was introduced by Jim Stasheff in [Sta63] with higher coherence conditions and now becomes one of the most important structures on spaces and algebras. He al…
math.GT2025
A closed manifold is a fat CW complex
Norio Iwase, Yuki Kojima
The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new smooth version of a CW complex named a fat CW complex, and to show that it includes all closed manifolds, because existing smoo…