Bashar Saleh: Non-commutative formality implies commutative formality
Time: Tue 2017-03-21 13.15 - 15.00
Location: Room 306, House 6, Kräftriket, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
Participating: Bashar Saleh (SU)
ABSTRACT: I will explain the ideas and techniques used to prove that a commutative dg algebra over a field of characteristic zero is formal as a dg associative algebra if and only if it is formal as a commutative dg algebra. We also present a consequence of this result in rational homotopy theory.