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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 12:00pm

Alina Badus

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

I will survey generalizations of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to higher dimensions. After a brief discussion of the work of Allendoerfer, Fenchel and Chern, I will describe an extrinsic proof that uses Morse theory and integral geometry. The same techniques also give beautiful formulas for manifolds with boundary, as well as a surprising result for submanifolds of the sphere.