Moment-Angle Complexes, Spaces of Hard-Disks and Their Associated Stable Decompositions

Topological spaces given by either (1) complements of coordinate planes in Euclidean space or (2) spaces of non-overlapping hard-disks in a fixed disk have several features in common. The main results, in joint work with many people, give decompositions for the so-called "stable structure" of these spaces as well as consequences of these decompositions.

This talk will present definitions as well as basic properties.

Date

Speakers

Fred Cohen

Affiliation

University of Rochester; Member, School of Mathematics