Post #1816240
2026-02-28 15:56 UTC
@MartinEscardo @dwarn This thread forced me to finally learn some agda, and try to write some proofs.
I am attempting to reprove another statement from Taylor's paper. If a topological space admits a majority operation ๐ satisfying
๐(๐ฅ,๐ฅ,๐ฆ)=๐(๐ฅ,๐ฆ,๐ฅ)=๐(๐ฆ,๐ฆ,๐ฅ)=๐ฅ,
then it is weakly-equivalent to a discrete set.
Naturally, for homotopy types this would translate to three equations like
๐โ : ฮ (๐ฅ,๐ฆ : ๐ด) ๐(๐ฆ,๐ฅ,๐ฅ)=๐ฅ
๐โ : ฮ (๐ฅ,๐ฆ : ๐ด) ๐(๐ฅ,๐ฆ,๐ฅ)=๐ฅ
๐โ : ฮ (๐ฅ,๐ฆ : ๐ด) ๐(๐ฅ,๐ฅ,๐ฆ)=๐ฅ
I managed to make ๐ act idempotently on the loop space, but encountered an interesting problem: There are a few ways how to prove that ๐ is idempotent, and it is not clear which choice to make! I would need something like
ฮ (๐ฅ:๐ด) ๐โ(๐ฅ,๐ฅ) = ๐โ(๐ฅ,๐ฅ).
But maybe this is a consequence of what we mean when we write the above majority identities.
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