Poincaré/Koszul duality
Presenter
April 7, 2014
Keywords:
- factorization homology
- Koszul duality
- Goodwillie functor calculus
- blob homology
- topological chiral homology
- topological field theory
- higher Hochschild homology
MSC:
- 16S37
- 16S38
- 16S80
- 16S85
- 14Fxx
Abstract
What is Poincaré duality for factorization homology? Our answer has three ingredients: Koszul duality, zero-pointed manifolds, and Goodwillie calculus. We introduce zero-pointed manifolds so as to construct a Poincaré duality map from factorization homology to factorization cohomology; this cohomology theory has coefficients the Koszul dual coalgebra. Goodwillie calculus is used to prove this Poincaré/Koszul duality when the coefficient algebra is connected. The key technical step is that Goodwillie calculus is Koszul dual to Goodwillie-Weiss calculus.