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Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar: Langwen Hui, "Algebraic models of spaces"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Mathematics
Location
207 Gregory Hall
Date
Nov 3, 2023   3:00 pm  
Speaker
Langwen Hui
Contact
Samuel Hsu
E-Mail
samuelh6@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Graduate Student Seminars in Mathematics

Title: Algebraic models of spaces

Abstract: It is known that E_∞ cochains completely capture localizations of simply connected spaces subject to certain finiteness conditions. This is due to Quillen-Sullivan in the rational case, and Mandell in the p-adic case. However, the embedding into Z-valued cochains turns out to be faithful but not full. The subject of finding an algebraic model for integral homotopy types has seen significant progress in the past few years. We now have several fully faithful embeddings of simply connected finite complexes into "algebraic" ∞-categories. In this talk, I will introduce two approaches due independently to Yuan and Horel.

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