In
mathematics, chiral homology, introduced by
Alexander Beilinson
Alexander A. Beilinson (born 1957) is the David and Mary Winton Green University professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics. His research has spanned representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. In 1 ...
and
Vladimir Drinfeld
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld ( uk, Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a renowne ...
, is, in their words, "a “quantum” version of (the algebra of functions on) the space of global horizontal sections of an affine
-scheme (i.e., the space of global solutions of a system of non-linear differential equations)."
Jacob Lurie
Jacob Alexander Lurie (born December 7, 1977) is an American mathematician who is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Lurie is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.
Life
When he was a student in the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science ...
's topological chiral homology gives an analog for
manifolds.
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See also
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Ran space
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Chiral Lie algebra In algebra, a chiral Lie algebra is a D-module on a curve with a certain structure of Lie algebra. It is related to an \mathcal_2-algebra via the Riemann–Hilbert correspondence In mathematics, the term Riemann–Hilbert correspondence refers to ...
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Factorization homology
References
*{{cite book, last1=Beilinson, first1=Alexander, authorlink1=Alexander Beilinson, last2=Drinfeld, first2=Vladimir, authorlink2=Vladimir Drinfeld , title=Chiral algebras, date=2004, publisher=American Mathematical Society, isbn=0-8218-3528-9, chapter=Chapter 4, url=http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~mitya/langlands.html
Homological algebra