I will present Weinstein's paper "The cut locus and conjugate locus of a riemannian manifold". In this paper, the author shows that on any compact differentiable manifold not homeomorphic to $S^2$, there exists a riemannian metric and a point p whose cut and conjugate loci are disjoint.
Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 3:00pm
James Tripp
University of Pennsylvania