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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 2:00pm

Ron Umble

Millersville U

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

sorry for the raw tex

We define the free matrad $\mathcal{H}_{\infty },$ generated by a singleton $\theta _{m}^{n}$ in each bidegree $\left(m,n\right),$ and construct the matrahedra $\left\{KK_{n,m}=KK_{m,n}\right\},$ of which $KK_{n,1}=KK_{1,n}$ is the Stasheff associahedron $K_{n}.$ We realize $\mathcal{H}_{\infty }$ as the cellular chains of $KK$ and define an $A_{\infty }$-bialgebra as an algebra over $\mathcal{H}_{\infty }.$