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Geometry-Topology Reading Seminar

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 10:30am

Mohamad Hindawi

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

In this talk we will discuss the filling invariants at infinity div_{k} for Hadamard manifolds defined by Brady and Farb. We will give a positive answer to the question they posed: whether these invariants can be used to detect the rank of a symmetric space of noncompact type.