Tuesday 24 September 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 in HG00.310
Niall Taggart (RU)
Counting vector bundles
It is a classical problem in algebraic topology to count the number rank \(d\) vector bundles over a space \(X\) having fixed characteristic class data. In this talk I will explain how the implementation of a few homotopy theoretic techniques make this a tractable problem for stably trivial vector bundles. This will touch upon joint works (in progress) with each of Arone, Boyde and Carr.