Seminar series
Date
Mon, 11 Feb 2008
14:45
14:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Teruji Thomas
Organisation
Oxford
Taking the intersection form of a 4n-manifold defines a functor from a category of cobordisms to a symmetric monoidal category of quadratic forms. I will present the theory of the Maslov index and some higher-categorical constructions as variations on this theme.