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Topics in Geometric Group Theory |
| November 05, 2007 to November 09, 2007 |
| Organized By: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn |
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| Parent Programs: |
| Geometric Group Theory |
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Discrete groups and Morse theory (in 610 Evans Hall, UC-Berkeley)
Monday November 5, 2007
04:10PM - 05:00PM
Speakers:
Mladen Bestvina
Abstract:
The purpose of the MSRI/Evans lectures is to introduce the present year's research programs at MSRI to the mathematical community in Berkeley. These talks are expository and nontechnical.
In the classical Morse theory one investigates the topology of a manifold M by considering a function f:M->R and then studying the sublevel sets f^{-1}(-\infty,t) and how they change as t increases. I will describe a method involving Morse theory to investigate if a given discrete group is finitely generated (or finitely presented).
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