Tuesday Seminar on Topology

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Date, time & place Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya

2009/05/26

16:30-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
境 圭一 (東京大学大学院数理科学研究科)
Configuration space integrals and the cohomology of the space of long embeddings

[ Abstract ]
It is known that some non-trivial cohomology classes, such as finite type invariants for (long) 1-knots (Bott-Taubes, Kohno, ...) and invariants for codimension two, odd dimensional long embeddings (Bott, Cattaneo-Rossi, Watanabe) are given as configuration space integrals associated with trivalent graphs.
In this talk, I will describe more cohomology classes by means of configuration space integral, in particular those arising from non-trivalent graphs and a new formulation of the Haefliger invariant for long 3-embeddings in 6-space, in relation to Budney's little balls operad action and Roseman-Takase's deform-spinning.
This is in part a joint work with Tadayuki Watanabe.