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Dec
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2025

Topology Seminar | Tess Bouis (IAS)

When: Monday, December 1, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Lunt Hall, 104, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Noah Riggenbach  
noah.riggenbach@northwestern.edu

Group: Department of Mathematics: Topology Seminar

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Title: Polylogarithms and Habiro cohomology

Abstract: In their recent work, Garoufalidis, Scholze, Wheeler, and Zagier have defined the notion of Habiro ring of a number field, in order to capture the arithmetic behaviour of certain q-series coming from 3-manifold topology. These Habiro rings are global invariants of number fields, and are reminiscent of a more general theory, still under development, of Habiro cohomology. In this talk, I want to explain how certain constructions from number theory can also be lifted to this new setting. More precisely, I will explain how a refinement of Bhatt and Lurie's prismatic logarithm can be used to produce natural q-polylogarithm classes in this context. This is based on joint work with Quentin Gazda.

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