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Minimal Surface Seminar

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 4:30pm

Thomas Brooks

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Manifolds whose curvature tensor has kernel of codimension at most 2 are called Conullity 2 manifolds. Trivial ones are those that are formed as the metric product of a surface with Euclidean space. Certain non-trivial examples are formed as hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. These are examined by Szabo '81 and are shown to be graphs over R^3 where the kernel of the curvature gives a fibration of R^3 by pairwise-skew lines.