Department of Mathematics

Geometry Seminar

  •  Woongbae Park, University of Pittsburgh
  •  An integral formula for rational homotopy groups and analytic estimates.
  •  03/30/2023
  •  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  •  C304 Wells Hall
  •  Benjamin I Schmidt (schmi444@msu.edu)

In this talk, I present a rational homotopy group and and its construction using minimal models given by Sullivan. After briefly describing Sullivan's theorem, I will consider the specific example of S^n v S^n and compute few low-dimensional rational homotopy groups. In the second part, I introduce the Novikov integral formula for the rational homotopy group and provide analytic bound obtained from the integral formula. The talk will end with specific examples.

 

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