Batanin's category of pruned trees is Koszul
Abstract
The category of pruned trees has been defined by M. Batanin with the aim of understanding the cell structure of certain En-operads in categorical terms. The objects of this category are planar trees with n levels so that all leaves are at the top level of the tree. The goal of this article is to prove that the category of pruned trees is Koszul. This result gives us a minimal differential graded model of this category, small complexes to compute Tor and Ext functors in associated categories of diagrams, and allows us to generalize a recent result of M. Livernet and B. Richter about the interpretation of En-homology in terms of categorical Tor functors.
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