Timeline for What is the Q-construction, metaphysically?
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| Apr 26, 2013 at 21:40 | vote | accept | Joshua Seaton | ||
| Apr 26, 2013 at 6:40 | comment | added | Fernando Muro | I think that Waldhausen's S. construction answers your question, as it gives the intuition you're looking for. Waldhaunsen's S. is not Quillen's Q, but I read once that Quillen knew about S. since he defined Q, but he didn't like that S. was bisimplicial, so he looked for an equivalent, just simplicial construction, and so he found Q, which is 'less natural' also from my point of view. However I don't remember where I read this, nor I have any evidence of its veracity. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 6:32 | comment | added | Dylan Wilson | math.mit.edu/~clarkbar/papers.html Check out the papers with the obviously related titles. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 23:31 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 23:16 | answer | added | John Klein | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 22:55 | history | asked | Joshua Seaton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |