Basics about elliptic characteristic classes and singularities

Speaker(s)

Andrzej Weber

Affiliation

MIMUW

Language of the talk

English

Date

Oct. 9, 2024, 10:30 a.m.

Room

room 4070

Title in Polish

Podstawy o eliptycznych klasach charakterystycznych i osobliwościach

Seminar

Seminar Algebraic Topology

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I will motivate why the elliptic characteristic classes are well adapted to study singular algebraic varieties. The blow-up relation forces that the formal power series defining elliptic classes is up to a modificarion equal to Jacobi theta function.

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