- Inbar Klang, Columbia
- Equivariant factorization homology and tools for studying it
- 12/15/2020
- 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM
- Online (virtual meeting)
(Virtual Meeting Link)
- Honghao Gao (gaohongh@msu.edu)
Factorization homology arose from Beilinson--Drinfeld's
algebro-geometric approach to conformal field theory, and from study
of labeled configuration spaces due to McDuff, Segal, Salvatore,
Andrade, and others. In this talk, I will give an algebraic topology
flavored introduction to factorization homology and equivariant
factorization homology. I will then discuss joint work with Asaf Horev
and Foling Zou, in which we prove a "non-abelian Poincaré duality"
theorem for equivariant factorization homology, and study the
equivariant factorization homology of equivariant Thom spectra. In
particular, this provides an avenue for computing certain equivariant
analogues of topological Hochschild homology.
