Manchester Geometry Seminar 2010/2011


Thursday 2 December 2010. The Frank Adams Room (Room 1.212), the Alan Turing Building. 4.15pm

Formality for Algebroids

Paul Bressler (Université Paris 7)


paul.bressler@gmail.com

The celebrated formality theorem of Kontsevich establishes a bijection between the collection of equivalence classes of (non-commutative) deformations of the algebra of functions on a manifold on the one hand, and the collection of equivalence classes of deformations of the trivial Poisson bracket. I will describe a generalization of this result to algebroids which are twisted forms of the sheaf of functions on the manifold (a.k.a. gerbes).


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