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Characteristic numbers, Jiang subgroup and non-positive curvature

Time: 2023-10-16, MONDAY 14:00-15:00

Venue: Shuangqing Complex 双清综合楼, C654 Zoom meeting ID: 405 416 0815, pw: 111111

Speaker:Ping Li 李平,复旦大学

Abstract

A sufficient condition in terms of Jiang subgroup is presented for the vanishing of signature and arithmetic genus. Along this line, some progress can be made on a question of Farrell and a complex version's Hopf conjecture.

DATEOctober 16, 2023
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