Subject: Re: two postings From: jim stasheff Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:34:03 -0400 A related problem is considered by Sullivan and by Fukaya Consider the transversely intersecting pairs in C\otimes C This shoudl give rise by general principles to an A_\infty alg for which there is a minimal model but i don't know how effective this can be jim > > Subject: A question about minimal model > From: ssp@pdmi.ras.ru > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:09:51 +0400 (MSD) > > Is it possible to compute the minimal model (in the sense of Sullivan) > of a closed oriented manifold geometrically, using geometric chains > (in any sense) instead of differential forms - and the intersection > pairing? The difficulty is that chains do not form an algebra, because > the intersection of two chains is well defined only if they are > in general position. Massey triple products may be computed geometrically > (just choose everything generically), but this is not enough to construct > the minimal model. >