Seminário de Teoria Quântica do Campo Topológica  

06/11/2019, 16:30 — 17:00 — Sala P3.10, Pavilhão de Matemática
Pedro Brito, Instituto Superior Técnico

Galois symmetries in geometry

I’ll say a few words about some homotopical (“higher”) methods to study knot spaces and diffeomorphism groups. A fascinating appearance, and one of my current obsessions, is made by the absolute Galois group of the rationals.