The Cosmic Galois Group Paper

THE COSMIC GALOIS GROUP AS KOSZUL DUAL TO WALDHAUSEN’S A(*) JACK MORAVA ABSTRACT. The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we shall all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses 1. BASIC QUESTIONS 1.1 Existence: Why is there something, rather than nothing? This does not seem very accessible by current methods. A more realistic goal may be Classification: Given that there’s something, what could it be? This suggests a Program: If things fall into categories (A, B, ..., ), hopefully small and stable enough to be manageable, techniques from K-theory may be useful.

A screenshot of a mock academic paper titled “The Cosmic Galois Group as Koszul Dual to Waldhausen’s A(*)” by Jack Morava. It presents grand philosophical questions about existence and classification in an overly formal mathematical style, then proposes K-theory as a program. The joke comes from treating the question of why anything exists as if it were a manageable research problem.

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