Department of Mathematics
Mathematics Colloquium - Fall 2002
Monday, October 21st, 2002
2:30pm - 3:30pm, in Science 2-065
2:30pm - 3:30pm, in Science 2-065
Maura Mast
UMass BostonLength minimizing geodesics and conjugate points in two-step nilmanifolds
Abstract:
In the context of two-step nilpotent metric Lie groups, I'll give an (intuitive) overview of some recent results concerning the related problems of calculating the first conjugate point (if it exists) of a geodesic and determining the length minimizing geodesic between two points.
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