[For the entire collection see Zbl 0699.00032.] The author defines a general notion of a foliated groupoid over a foliation with singularities, within the framework of a (known) general notion of a differentiable structure. Then, he generalizes the classical correspondence between the subalgebras of Lie algebras and the subgroups of the corresponding Lie groups for this type of pseudogroups.
It is well-known that a based space is of the weak homotopy type of a loop space iff it is a grouplike algebra over an -operad. The classical model for such an operad consists of Stasheff’s associahedra. The present paper describes a similar recognition principle for free loop spaces. Let be an operad, a -module and a -algebra. An -trace over consists of a space and a module homomorphism over the operad homomorphism given by the algebra structure on . Let be the little 1-cubes...
Summary of the three lectures. These notes are available electronically at http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~drorbn/Talks/Srni-9901/notes.html.
Let be a -manifold with a Riemannian conformal structure . Given a regular curve on , the authors define a linear operator on the space of (differentiable) vector fields along , only depending on , called the Fermi-Walker connection along . Then, the authors introduce the concept of Fermi-Walker parallel vector field along , proving that such vector fields set up a linear space isomorphic to the tangent space at a point of . This allows to consider the Fermi-Walker horizontal lift of...