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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 2:00pm

Murray Gerstenhaber

U Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 2C8

Due to a crisis at CCP, the first talk in our joint project will be postponed to Oct 24

Deformation theory can be used to compute the cohomology of a deformed algebra with coefficients in itself from that of the original. Using the invariance of the Euler-Poincare characteristic under deformation, it is applied here to compute the cohomology of the Weyl algebra, the algebra of the quantum plane, and the q-Weyl algebra. The behavior of the cohomology when q is a root of unity may encode some number theoretic information.