Graduate Student Seminar, 4:30pm October 28, 2002, Hayes-Healy
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Speaker:
Mike Dekker
Title:
Abstract:
The question of the existence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar on
manifolds has come to involve a set of bordism groups, labelled R_n.
These groups both classify and play the role of obstruction groups
for the existence of these metrics. However, these groups are not known
even in the trivial case, and my work attempts to make progress in
estimating their size by looking at a particular homomorphism from R_n to
a K-theory group. Fear not - this story will be told as simply as
possible.
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