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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - 2:00pm

John Terilla

Queens College, CUNY

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

I will state and prove a new necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a versal solution to the master equation in a differential BV algebra. The condition generalizes the Barannikov-Kontsevich-Manin situation where a d-dbar Lemma holds.