We prove a conjecture of Lambrechts and Stanley about the homotopy invariance and the definition of models for configuration spaces of (smooth) simply connected manifolds over ℝ. We do this using ideas coming from Kontsevich’s proof of the formality of the little disks operads.
Young Topologists Meeting 2017 @ Stockholm University & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
- Title
- The Lambrechts–Stanley Model of Configuration Spaces
- Event
- Young Topologists Meeting 2017
- Location
- Stockholm University & Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
- On
- Event
- https://www.math-stockholm.se/en/konferenser-och-akti/young-topologists-meeting-2017-1.670396
- Slides
- https://cdn.idrissi.eu/main/talk/ytm2017.pdf