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How geometric field theories represent (generalized, twisted, equivariant) cohomology classes

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Speaker: 
Peter Teichner
Affiliation: 
MPIM
Date: 
Thu, 04/07/2024 - 12:00 - 13:30
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Physical Math Seminar

We discuss the language of functorial field theories, i.e. symmetric monoidal functors on geometric bordism categories, starting with the relation of 1-dimensional Euclidean theories to quantum mechanics. We explain how their concordance classes can lead to generalized cohomology and how this extends to the twisted, equivariant cases.

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