School of Mathematics Seminars and Lectures

Space of negatively curved metrics

Name: Space of negatively curved metrics
Start: 2012-05-09T16:00:00+05:30
End: 2012-05-09T17:00:00+05:30
Location: Colaba Campus

by Prof. F.T. Farrell (Binghamton University, USA)

Wednesday 9 May 2012, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-77 (Colaba Campus)

AG-77

Colaba Campus

Description

I'll talk on joint work with Pedro Ontaneda where we show that the space of all negatively curved Riemannian metrics on a closed smooth manifold of dimension >9 is either empty or disconnected.