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Quantum Mathematics Seminar: Joost Nuiten (Toulouse)

Location
Physics B21
Date(s)
Monday 24th April 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Contact

Robert Laugwitz (organizer)

Alex Schenkel (host)

Description

Quantum Maths Seminar, external speaker

Speaker:
Joost Nuiten (Université de Toulouse)

Title: Lie algebroids as curved Lie algebras

Abstract: Differential graded Lie algebras play an important role in deformation theory as algebraic objects classifying the infinitesimal neighbourhoods of moduli spaces around a basepoint. An informal principle asserts that geometric objects without a fixed basepoint should admit a similar description in terms of curved Lie algebras, which have a `differential' whose square is controlled by a curvature element. In this talk, I will discuss the relation between two algebraic models for the formal neighbourhood of a moduli space around a variety, rather than around a single point: in terms of dg-Lie algebroids and in terms of curved Lie algebras over the de Rham complex. In particular, I will describe an embedding of the homotopy category of dg-Lie algebroids into the homotopy category of such curved Lie algebras. Joint work with Damien Calaque and Ricardo Campos.

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