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Infinite symmetric groups and two-dimensional simplicial bordisms

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Speaker: 
Yury Neretin
Affiliation: 
U. Vienna/MPI
Date: 
Mon, 19/09/2011 - 15:00 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Topics in Topology

We consider an infinite symmetric group $G$. For some its
subgroups $K$ double cosets $K\setminus G/ K$ admit a natural  structure of
a semigroup (remark for experts: this semigroup acts in  $K$-fixed vectors
of representations of $G$).  Elements of $K\setminus  G/ K$ can be
interpreted as two-dimensional polygonal bordisms, the  multplication is
the product of bordisms. We also
produce a family of constructions in the spirit of 'topological field
theories' (i.e., for each bordism we write a matrix, product of  bordisms
corresponds to product of matrices).

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