[geometry-ml:01739] Seminar at Kavli IPMU on 2013 April 25 Pajitnov

[Satoshi Kondo]

Dear colleagues:

There will be a seminar as follows at Kavli IPMU
(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of
the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
http://www.ipmu.jp/

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Speaker: Andrei Pajitnov (U Nantes)

Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 13:15 - 14:45

Place: Seminar Room B

Title: Novikov homology and its geometric applications.

Abstract:
The classical Morse theory relates the critical
points of a function  with the topology
of the underlying manifold. In 1980s S.P.  Novikov
initiated a generalisation of this theory to the case of
circle-valued Morse functions. In this survey talk
we explain the construction of the Novikov complex,
and outline some of its geometric applications
to knot theory, jump loci for homology with local coefficients
and others.
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