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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Joint UCI-UCSD Geometry Seminar
Fred Wilhelm
UC Riverside
An Exotic Sphere with Positive Sectional Curvature
Abstract:
I'll discuss joint work with Peter Petersen that shows that the Gromoll-Meyer exotic 7-sphere admits positive sectional curvature. I'll discuss the history of the problem and give a coarse outline of our solution.
Hosts: Ben Weinkove and Lei Ni
December 4, 2008
2:00 PM
AP&M 6402
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