Deformation functors - a modern approach

Speaker:

João Nuno Mestre

Date:

Thu, 25/10/2018 - 10:30 - 12:30

Location:

MPIM Seminar Room [2]

Parent event:

Learning seminar on deformation theory [3]

We will continue the study of deformation problems by getting to a modern defintion of a deformation functor. These are functors from local Artinian k-algebras to simplicial sets. We will see how the Maurer-Cartan equation provides a such a deformation functor out of a dgLa.

The talk includes an introduction to the necessary tools on simplicial sets.