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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 2:00pm

Murray Gerstenhaber

U Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Combined with Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Having defined deformation of an associative algebra with examples (including that of Moyal), Hochschild cohomology and obstructions in the first lecture, the second will consider the appropriate equivalences and then proceed with a true physical example: deformation quantization of a harmonic oscillator.