College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences

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Skye Hall 268

Catherine Searle, Wichita State University

Positively curved manifolds are notoriously hard to classify. In the early 90's, based on the observation that the few known examples are all highly symmetric, Karsten Grove proposed his "Symmetry Program" which suggests trying to classify such manifolds with the additional hypothesis of symmetry. Much work has been focused on the case of continuous symmetries. In this talk, I'll discuss the case when the isometry group is finite and present some recent results when it is  an elementary abelian two-group.

This is joint work with Lee Kennard and Elahe Khalili Samani.

Type
Colloquium
Target Audience
General Public
Admission
Free
Registration Required
No
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