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July 14, 2025
Monday, July 14
Geometry and Topology
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Enxin Wu (Shantou University)
Title: "From calculus and fibre bundles to smooth homological algebra"
Room: MC107

Abstract: Function spaces appearing in calculus usually have extra structure besides being a topological vector space. In this talk, we start by examining Borel's lemma from the viewpoint of diffeological vector spaces, where diffeology is a sheaf theoretical way to unify smooth manifolds, infinite-dimensional spaces and singular spaces. This leads to homological algebra in the smooth setting. We will see how fibre bundle theory plays a role there. At the end, we will see some interesting phenomena, together with several conjectures and open questions. This talk includes some joint work with Dan Christensen.