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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 4:30pm

Mona Merling

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

The stable parametrized h-cobordism theorem provides a critical link in the chain of homotopy theoretic constructions that show up in the classification of manifolds and their diffeomorphisms. For a compact smooth manifold M it gives a decomposition of Waldhausen's A(M) into QM_+ and a delooping of the stable h-cobordism space of M. I will talk about joint work with Malkiewich on this story when M is a smooth compact G-manifold.