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Tuesday Seminar on Topology
Seminar information archive ～06/05｜Next seminar｜Future seminars 06/06～
| Date, time & place | Tuesday 16:00 - 17:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.) |
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| Organizer(s) | IKE Yuichi, KONNO Hokuto, SAKASAI Takuya |
Future seminars
2026/06/09
16:00-17:30 Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Masato Tanabe (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Thom polynomials relative to maps prescribed near the boundary (JAPANESE)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Masato Tanabe (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Thom polynomials relative to maps prescribed near the boundary (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Thom polynomials are universal cohomological obstructions to the appearance of singularities of given types in differentiable maps. Introduced by R. Thom in the 1950s, they have been extensively studied ever since. In one important line of applications, various invariants of immersions have been expressed in terms of singularities of their extensions (a.k.a. singular Seifert surfaces). However, these formulas are obtained in different forms and remain somewhat scattered.
In this talk, as the first step to unify them, I would like to introduce the notion of Thom polynomials relative to prescribed maps around the boundary. As a main result, we show a structure theorem of Thom polynomials relative to framed immersions. In fact, most of the earlier formulas are summarized as the vanishing of "correction terms" appearing in the structure theorem. Our key tools are Steenrod's obstruction theory and Kervaire's relative characteristic classes, and the K-invariance of singularity types plays an important role.
[ Reference URL ]Thom polynomials are universal cohomological obstructions to the appearance of singularities of given types in differentiable maps. Introduced by R. Thom in the 1950s, they have been extensively studied ever since. In one important line of applications, various invariants of immersions have been expressed in terms of singularities of their extensions (a.k.a. singular Seifert surfaces). However, these formulas are obtained in different forms and remain somewhat scattered.
In this talk, as the first step to unify them, I would like to introduce the notion of Thom polynomials relative to prescribed maps around the boundary. As a main result, we show a structure theorem of Thom polynomials relative to framed immersions. In fact, most of the earlier formulas are summarized as the vanishing of "correction terms" appearing in the structure theorem. Our key tools are Steenrod's obstruction theory and Kervaire's relative characteristic classes, and the K-invariance of singularity types plays an important role.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2026/06/16
16:00-17:30 Room #hybrid/128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Yuto Moriwaki (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Conformally flat factorization homology (JAPANESE)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Yuto Moriwaki (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Conformally flat factorization homology (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
This talk presents conformally flat factorization homology, introduced as a conformal Riemannian analogue of Lurie's factorization homology. Ordinary factorization homology takes a d-disk algebra as input and produces invariants of d-dimensional manifolds that are independent of the choice of metric. In contrast, conformally flat factorization homology takes as input a conformally flat d-disk algebra, which is an algebra over the operad formed by conformal open embeddings of disks, and constructs, via its left Kan extension, metric-dependent invariants of conformally flat Riemannian manifolds.
This theory provides a framework connecting representations of local conformal transformations with Riemannian geometric invariants, and describes the local structure of d-dimensional conformal field theory. The talk will also discuss concrete examples constructed using Bergman spaces and Grunsky operators in dimension two, and using unitary representations of SO+(d,1) in dimensions three and higher.
This talk is based on arXiv:2602.08729 and arXiv:2603.06491.
[ Reference URL ]This talk presents conformally flat factorization homology, introduced as a conformal Riemannian analogue of Lurie's factorization homology. Ordinary factorization homology takes a d-disk algebra as input and produces invariants of d-dimensional manifolds that are independent of the choice of metric. In contrast, conformally flat factorization homology takes as input a conformally flat d-disk algebra, which is an algebra over the operad formed by conformal open embeddings of disks, and constructs, via its left Kan extension, metric-dependent invariants of conformally flat Riemannian manifolds.
This theory provides a framework connecting representations of local conformal transformations with Riemannian geometric invariants, and describes the local structure of d-dimensional conformal field theory. The talk will also discuss concrete examples constructed using Bergman spaces and Grunsky operators in dimension two, and using unitary representations of SO+(d,1) in dimensions three and higher.
This talk is based on arXiv:2602.08729 and arXiv:2603.06491.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
2026/06/23
16:00-17:30 Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Andrei Pajitnov (Université de Nantes)
Morse-Novikov theory for links (ENGLISH)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Andrei Pajitnov (Université de Nantes)
Morse-Novikov theory for links (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Let M be a compact manifold with a non-empty boundary N, and x an element of the first cohomology group of M. We assume that the restriction of x to N can be represented by a fibration over a circle. The Morse-Novikov number MN(M,x) is the minimal possible number of critical points of a Morse map f of M to a circle, such that [f]=x, and the restriction of f to N is a fibration over the circle. In this talk we present our results about the Morse-Novikov numbers for the exteriors of links in 3-sphere. This is joint work with L. Chen and H. Endo.
[ Reference URL ]Let M be a compact manifold with a non-empty boundary N, and x an element of the first cohomology group of M. We assume that the restriction of x to N can be represented by a fibration over a circle. The Morse-Novikov number MN(M,x) is the minimal possible number of critical points of a Morse map f of M to a circle, such that [f]=x, and the restriction of f to N is a fibration over the circle. In this talk we present our results about the Morse-Novikov numbers for the exteriors of links in 3-sphere. This is joint work with L. Chen and H. Endo.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
