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Rademacher Lectures

Friday, October 21, 2016 - 3:00pm

Claude LeBrun

Stony Brook University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

A6 DRL

Tea will served at 2:30pm in 4E17 DRL

In the final lecture, we will focus on the uniqueness question for Einstein metrics. That is, what can we say about the space of all Einstein metrics on a given  4-manifolds, modulo diffeomorphisms and rescalings? We will carefully discuss some key examples where this Einstein  moduli space can be shown to be connected. We will then discuss some partial results concerning other important 4-manifolds.  However, we will also see that
there do exist 4-manifolds for which the Einstein moduli space fails to be connected.  The lecture will then conclude with a discussion of open problems.