Jérôme Scherer: homotopy nilpotency and the torus theorem
Time: Mon 2016-02-08 15.15 - 16.15
Location: room 34, building 5, Kräftriket, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University
Participating: Jérôme Scherer, EPFL
This is joint work with Cristina Costoya and Antonio Viruel. It is about understanding the concept of homotopy nilpotency introduced by Biedermann and Dwyer. We introduce a more elementary invariant counting the minimal number of fibrations whose fibers are infinite loop spaces. This allows us to prove a version of the Torus Theorem for finite homotopy nilpotent groups.