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Topology, Geometry and Data Seminar - Hannah Albert

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January 31, 2017
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cockins Hall 240

Title: Can arbitrarily many segments of a fixed length spin independently in the unit disk?

Speaker: Hannah Alpert (Ohio State University)

Abstract: The classical Kakeya needle problem asks, what is the infimal area of a region of the plane in which a unit segment can turn all the way around, perhaps translating as it does so? We can ask an analogous question for multiple segments in the unit disk. Can n segments of length r turn all the way around---that is, can they form the whole n-dimensional torus of possible angles---if they are allowed to translate as they turn? As n gets large, must r approach zero? This question comes from questions about the cohomology of the space of ways to arrange n disjoint disks of radius r in the unit disk.

Seminar URLhttps://research.math.osu.edu/tgda/tgda-seminar.html

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