Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

:

 Dr. Micah Miller
Affiliation : IISc, Bangalore.

Subject Area

:

Mathematics

 

Venue

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Department of Mathematics, Lecture Hall III

 

Time

:

3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.

 

Date  

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October9, 2012 (Tuesday)

Title

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"The String topology loop product through twisting cochains"
Abstract

:

String topology is the study of the free loop space of a manifold LM. The loop product, defined on the homology of LM, is described intuitively as a combination of the intersection product on M and loop concatenation in the based loop space of M. However, since the intersection product is well-defined only on transversally intersecting chains, this description is incomplete. Brown's theory of twisting cochains provides a chain model of a bundle in terms of the chains on the base and chains on the fiber. We extend this theory so that it can be applied to provide a model of the free loop space. We give a precise definition of the loop product defined at the chain level.