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Geometry-Topology Reading Seminar

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 10:30am

Shea Vela-Vick

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL4C8

In this continuation of the series of talks on Arnol'd's dream, we discuss previous attempts to find higher order helicities of vector fields using Massey triple products. In this talk, I plan to introduce the Massey triple product, and explain its connection to Milnor's mu invariant. I will also show how this triple product can be used to derive higher order invariants of certain vector fields in Euclidean 3-space.