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Louis Hainaut: The notion of polynomial functors

Time: Fri 2022-05-20 13.15 - 14.15

Location: Kräftriket, house 5, room 32

Participating: Louis Hainaut, Stockholms Universitet

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Abstract

In real analysis, the polynomials play a special role, since they form a class of functions with simple properties that can be used to study more general functions via Taylor-McLauren approximations. I will discuss two definitions of polynomial functors between categories, which are modeled after some properties of polynomials, and I will illustrate these definitions with examples from algebraic topology.