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Deformation Theory Seminar

Friday, June 27, 2014 - 2:00pm

Jim Stasheff

Penn and UNC-CH

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4E19

Note new summer room and unusual day

Two of the mysteries of DFT (double field theory) are:

The doubled coordinates are on what global space?

What is going on with the miss-called `non-associtive coordinate transformations´?

Today´s talk, based on work with Andreas Deser, Hannover, will attempt to answer the first using Roytenberg´s superization of the `cotangent double´.