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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, March 3, 2004 - 1:45pm

Jungyoon Byun

U Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

As an approximation to the Hopf algebra introduced by Connes-Kreimer, we construct a new Hopf algebra structure by considering actual shapes of Feynman diagrams. It has a basis consisting of forests of tree diagrams having a finite upper bound of their branching numbers. We call such a tree diagram 'bonsai', show that it involves an operad structure, derive from that some cochain complex structures which are quite natural from the viewpoint of operad theory, and present some results on their homological algebra.