A REMARK ON FORMALITY

In this paper we prove two independent theorems concerning formality of a nilmanifold and a differential graded algebra using the well-known theorem of Deligne-Griffiths-Morgan-Sullivan. We first give a rational homotopy theoretic proof to the statement that a nilmanifold is formal if and only if it is a torus. And then we study some conditions with which formality of one dga implies formality of the other in an extension of dga's.