Homotopy Theory Seminar - Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy
September 28, 2017
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Math Tower 154

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2017-09-28 11:30:00 2017-09-28 12:30:00 Homotopy Theory Seminar - Chris Kennedy Title: Postnikov Towers and Bott ManifoldsSpeaker: Chris Kennedy (Ohio State University)Abstract: Postnikov towers are theoretically useful, but the associated data is often too cumbersome to make calculation practical. We examine a specific scenario where they may prove useful in deciding rigidity questions for some classes of manifolds. The main examples will be Bott manifolds, which arise as the total spaces of certain iterated fiber bundles over a point, and which yield a particularly nice version of J.H.C. Whitehead's "certain exact sequence."Seminar URL: https://people.math.osu.edu/valenzuelavasquez.2/hts/ Math Tower 154 America/New_York public

Title: Postnikov Towers and Bott Manifolds

SpeakerChris Kennedy (Ohio State University)

Abstract: Postnikov towers are theoretically useful, but the associated data is often too cumbersome to make calculation practical. We examine a specific scenario where they may prove useful in deciding rigidity questions for some classes of manifolds. The main examples will be Bott manifolds, which arise as the total spaces of certain iterated fiber bundles over a point, and which yield a particularly nice version of J.H.C. Whitehead's "certain exact sequence."

Seminar URLhttps://people.math.osu.edu/valenzuelavasquez.2/hts/

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