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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Monday, December 7, 2015 - 3:00pm

Yuhang Liu

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

I will prove Bieberbach's Theorem I, which states any n-dimensional crystallographic group contains n linearly independent pure translations. As a corollary, any compact flat manifold is finitely covered by a flat torus. I will also prove Bieberbacha**s Theorem II, which states that for fixed n, there are only finitely many isomorphism classes of n-dimensional crystallographic groups. This talk is based on Peter Busera**s paper "Geometric proofs of Bieberbach's Theorems on Crystallographic groups".