Babytop

Student seminar in topology

Fall 2004






Mark Behrens
Some Duality

Abstract:

There are many different kinds of duality that show up in the homological context: Pontryagin duality, Poincare duality, Spanier-Whitehead duality, Serre/Verdier/Grothendieck duality, Matlis duality, Greenlees-May duality, duality for discrete, profinite, and Lie groups, and in the Ext groups of Gorenstein rings, Brown-Comenetz duality, Gross-Hopkins duality, to name some dualities. I will discuss how some of these dualities are related in two abtract frameworks proposed by Fausk-Hu-May and Dwyer-Greenlees-Iyengar.