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Sylvain Douteau: Stratified homotopy theory

Time: Tue 2020-11-17 11.15 - 12.00

Location: Zoom, meeting ID: 657 9019 8929

Participating: Sylvain Douteau, Université de Picardie Jules Verne

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Abstract

Stratified spaces appear naturally in singularity theory. In the 80's, Goresky and MacPherson introduced intersection cohomology to generalize the cohomological properties of manifolds to some well-behaved stratified objects : the pseudo-manifolds. But intersection cohomology is not compatible with classical homotopy theory. This motivates the development of a new homotopy theory, better suited for the study of stratified spaces. In this talk, after giving a quick review of some classical results in homotopy theory that we intend to generalise, I will present two approaches to the problem of constructing a stratified homotopy theory : one simplicial, and one topological. We will explain how these two compare to each other and to the standard case, and present a new invariant of stratified spaces : the stratified homotopy groups.

Zoom Notes: The meeting ID is 657 9019 8929 and the passcode is 3517257.

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Last changed: Nov 12, 2020