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Topology Seminar - Kevin Schreve

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December 1, 2015
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cockins Hall 240

Title: Embedding Obstructions and Actions on Manifolds

Speaker: Kevin Schreve (University of Michigan)

Abstract: In 1933, van Kampen developed a homological obstruction to embedding simplicial complexes into Euclidean space. Bestvina, Kapovich and Kleiner used this obstruction to give lower bounds on the dimension of a contractible manifold that a group can act on properly discontinuously. I will discuss some examples of groups where this obstructor theory has proven successful, including right-angled Artin groups and lattices in Euclidean buildings. This is based on joint work with Grigori Avramidi, Michael Davis, and Boris Okun.

Seminar URL: https://research.math.osu.edu/topology/

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