Scissors congruence K-theory of manifolds and cobordism categories
Speaker:
Mona Merling, University of Pennsylvania
Date and Time:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 11:40am to 12:30pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
The scissors congruence K-theory of manifolds is a categorification of the SK (German "schneiden und kleben," cut and paste) groups for manifolds and it is the source of a derived Euler characteristic map. I will discuss how this spectrum can be viewed as mediating between the MTSO spectrum and classical algebraic K-theory of spaces. This is joint work with George Raptis and Julia Semikina.