Department of Mathematics
Mathematics Colloquium - Spring 2008
Monday, February 11th, 2008
10:30am - 11:30pm, in McCormack 2-419
10:30am - 11:30pm, in McCormack 2-419
Rebecca Field
Reed College and Cambridge UniversityGroups as twisted products of spheres
Abstract:
In this talk, I will explain the shape of the group of n x n invertible
complex matrices. It will turn out that this is almost a product of a
circle and a 3-sphere and a 5-sphere etc.. The reason for this, and the
precise ways it differs from a product, summarizes much contemporary
research in algebraic topology.
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