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Explanation for the Thom-Pontryagin construction (and its generalisations)
In 1950, Pontryagin showed that the n-th framed cobordism group of smooth manifolds was equal to n-th stable homotopy group of spheres:
$$ \lim_{k \to \infty} \pi_{n+k}(S^k) \cong \Omega_n^{\text{...
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Mumford conjecture: Heuristic reasons? Generalizations? ... Algebraic geometry approaches?
The Mumford conjecture states that for each integer $n$, we have: the map $\mathbb{Q}[x_1,x_2,\dots] \to H^\ast(M_g ; \mathbb{Q})$ sending $x_i$ to the kappa class $\kappa_i$, is an isomorphism in ...
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Teichmuller Theory introduction
What is a good introduction to Teichmuller theory, mapping class groups etc., and relation to moduli space of curves or Riemann surfaces?