Seminar series
Date
Thu, 27 Mar 2014
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Nick Rosenblyum
We will describe a generalization of the algebra of differential operators, which gives a
geometric approach to quantization of cotangent field theories. This construction is compatible
with "integration" thus giving a local-to-global construction of volume forms on derived mapping
spaces using a version of non-abelian duality. These volume forms give interesting invariants of
varieties such as the Todd genus, the Witten genus and the B-model operations on Hodge
cohomology.