Westlake Math Colloquium第二十一期 | Jianfeng Lin: Homological instability for the moduli space of smooth 4-manifolds

2022-10-25 10:40:26

时间2022年10月28日(周五)16:30-17:30

ZOOM ID: 843 8096 8839

PASSCODE: Campus


主持人: 理论科学研究院 关力凡博士

主讲人: 清华大学丘成桐数学中心 林剑峰副教授

主讲人简介:Jianfeng Lin is an associate professor at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University. His research focus on mathematical gauge theory, Floer homology and homotopy theory, and their applications in low dimensional topology.


讲座主题Homological instability for the moduli space of smooth 4-manifolds

讲座摘要: 

The moduli space of a smooth manifold X is defined to be the classifying space of its diffeomorphism group. Understanding the cohomology group of this space is important because elements in this group one-to-one correspond to characteristic classes for smooth bundles with fiber X. A celebrated result of Harer states that homology groups of the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces stabilize if one fixes a degree and increases the genus. Galatius and Randal-Williams established analogous homological stability for moduli spaces of manifolds of even dimension at least 6. In this talk, we will show that homological stability fails for the moduli space of any simply-connected closed smooth 4-manifold in any degree of homology. The central tool is a characteristic class constructed using Seiberg-Witten equations, which detects the subtle difference between the topological category and the smooth category of 4-manifolds. This is a joint work with Hokuto Konno.