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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822594903321

Titolo

Alpine perspectives on algebraic topology : Third Arolla Conference on Algebraic Topology, August 18-24, 2008, Arolla, Switzerland / / Christian Ausoni, Kathryn Hess, Jérôme Scherer, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8218-8183-3

0-8218-4839-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 504 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

514/.2

Soggetti

Algebraic topology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Preface --  List of Conference Talks --  List of Participants --  L-complete Hopf algebroids and their comodules --  The lattice path operad and Hochschild cochains --  Open-closed field theories, string topology, and Hochschild homology --  Introduction --  1. Open-closed Topological Field Theories --  2. The string topology category and its Hochschild homology --  3. Relations with the Fukaya category of the cotangent bundle --  References --  Cellular covers of divisible abelian groups --  Some geometric properties of the Witten genus --  Localization and cellularization of principal fibrations --  Operadic cobar constructions, cylinder objects and homotopy morphisms of algebras over operads --  Introduction --  The homotopy of operads and of algebras over operads --  0. The background of dg-modules --  1. Operads in dg-modules --  2. The category of algebras associated to an operad --  Applications of the operadic cobar construction --  3. The operadic cobar construction --  4. The cobar construction and cofibrant models of algebras over operads --  5. Cylinder objects and homotopy morphisms --  Bibliography --  Involutions on the rational K-theory of group rings of finite groups --  A quick trip through localization --  1. Geometric localization --  2. Geometric localization exists --  3. Localization of abelian groups --  4. Classical localization of abelian groups, inverting



a set of primes --  5. Classical localization of spaces --  6. Limits and derived functors --  7. Hom and Ext --  8. p??completion of abelian groups --  9. p??completion of topological spaces --  10. Miller's theorem and the Zabrodsky Lemma --  11. An exotic localization theorem and Serre's theorem --  12. Applications of exotic localization --  13. Serre's conjecture --  References --  Divided power structures and chain complexes.