Richard Melrose

I will describe the successive case of orientation, spin andstring structures on a compact manifold and in particular how the in the latter case this can be realized in terms of objects on the loop space. There remain serious difficulties in doing differential analysis on these spaces and I will try to show where the problems lie and some possible paths forward in ongoing work with Chris Kottke.
Richard Melrose
M.I.T.
Fri, 05/10/2012 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
OMB-149, Old Main Building, UNSW