EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: The adiabatic limit of a string structure
Speaker: Corbett Redden
Speaker Info: Notre Dame University
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Given both a metric and string structure on a manifold, we will construct a canonical metric connection whose torsion is an anti-derivative of the p_1 form. The motivation comes from wanting to view certain classes in elliptic cohomology as obstructions to positive Ricci curvature.