Researchers build new model for K-linear ∞-local systems

4 articles · Updated · Quantum Zeitgeist · May 4

Hisham Sati and Urs Schreiber at New York University Abu Dhabi, alongside David Gepner and colleagues at Caltech, developed a global model structure for parameterised spectra.
Using combinatorial model structures on simplicial chain complexes, it improves control over earlier dg-category-based approaches and, for base 1-types, gains a monoidal structure relevant to Linear Homotopy Type Theory.
Comparison maps support equivalence with existing constructions, and the work could aid topological quantum computing, though it has not yet shown practical speed-ups or solved scaling to higher-dimensional systems.

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