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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 10:00am

Dmytro Yeroshkin

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C2

A famous theorem of Hsiang and Kleiner states that if S^1 acts on a positively curved 4-dimensional manifold, then the manifold is homeomorphic to either S^4, RP^4 or CP^2. In this talk we will talk about a possible generalization to the orbifold case, and discuss several interesting examples.