Higher Galois closures
Theo Johnson-Freyd (Dalhousie/Perimeter)
Title: Higher Galois closures
Abstract: I will describe a mostly-conjectural picture of the higher-categorical separable closure of \RR. In particular, I will speculate about unitary topological field theory, higher analogues of spin-statistics, homotopy groups of spheres, and the j-homomorphism.
Recording taken from the Arithmetic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory seminar, organised by Jeff Harvey and Minhyong Kim