2/24/2012

Fred Cohen
University of Rochester

Polyhedral products: Decompositions, monodromy, and cohomology

The purpose of this talk is to develop new, further decompositions of the polyhedral product functor, to apply these constructions to address natural monodromy representations, and to present one (possibly curious) example in cohomology. These new decompositions are joint work of T. Bahri, M. Bendersky, S. Gitler, and the speaker. The possibly curious related computation arises in joint work with F. Callegaro, and M. Salvetti.