8.2.1. Construction
Consider two injective morphisms of curves and
where and are unoriented.
We assume that is outgoing for , that is incoming for and that
.
We write instead of and instead of ,
for .
Let be a subset of .
Fix an oriented diffeomorphism and let
be its composition
with the inclusion map. Similarly, fix an oriented diffeomorphism and let be its composition with the inclusion map.
Consider .
Let be the -bimodule given by
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Note that and , but
is not isomorphic to
in general.
There is an action of on
given by
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for ,
and .
There is a map given by
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This map is compatible with the action of
via
the canonical embeddings and
.
We have .
So, we have defined a bimodule lax bi--representation on .
Let , where
the gluing is done along the maps
and .
Note that is a -dimensional space and it comes with an injective open
morphism of -dimensional spaces . We endow with a curve
structure by setting and by endowing
with its usual orientation. We extend the curve structure on
by endowing with the curve structure of .
Note that .
Given and , ,
we put .
We consider the differential pointed category
with objects those of
and with
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We define a differential pointed functor
. It is
the identity on objects and defined on maps by
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Theorem 8.2.1. The functor factors through
and induces an isomorphism of differential pointed categories
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The sections ยง8.2.2-8.2.4 below are devoted to the proof of Theorem 8.2.1.
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Example 8.2.2. We give below an illustration of the gluing data.
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Example 8.2.3. The pictures below give two examples of description of
. The first picture corresponds to the gluing of two
intervals to form an interval. The second picture corresponds to
the self-gluing of an interval to form a circle.