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

2009/06/02

16:30-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Alexander Voronov (University of Minnesota)
Graph homology: Koszul duality = Verdier duality
[ Abstract ]
Graph cohomology appears in computation of the cohomology of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and the outer automorphism group of a free group. In the former case, it is graph cohomology of the commutative and Lie types, in the latter it is ribbon graph cohomology, that is to say, graph cohomology of the associative type. The presence of these three basic types of algebraic structures hints at a relation between Koszul duality for operads and Poincare-Lefschetz duality for manifolds. I will show how the more general Verdier duality for certain sheaves on the moduli spaces of graphs associated to Koszul operads corresponds to Koszul duality of operads. This is a joint work with Andrey Lazarev.