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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 2:00pm

Ralph Kaufmann

Purdue University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C2

We discuss the generalization of our actions on the Hochschild complex to the open/closed case. This leads to string topology type operations on one hand and to moduli space actions to the other. There are a few surprises in this constructions which are among other things are related to open/closed duality.