Date
Mon, 09 Oct 2023
14:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Mura Yakerson
Organisation
Oxford

Classically, topological vector bundles are classified by homotopy classes of maps into infinite Grassmannians. This allows us to study topological vector bundles using obstruction theory: we can detect whether a vector bundle has a trivial subbundle by means of cohomological invariants. In the context of algebraic geometry, one can ask whether algebraic vector bundles over smooth affine varieties can be classified in a similar way. Recent advances in motivic homotopy theory give a positive answer, at least over an algebraically closed base field. Moreover, the behaviour of vector bundles over general base fields has surprising connections with the theory of quadratic forms.

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