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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 2:00pm

John Terilla

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Cobar coFrobenius New work establishes that algebras over the cobar cofrobenius properad are the same as elements of square zero in the Weyl algebra. I will discuss how this result suggests that the cobar(cofrobenius) properad is a "deformation quantization" of the L_\infty operad. I will also mention a relationship with the homotopy version of involutive Lie bialgebras.