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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 4:30pm

Alan Reid

Univ. of Texas

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

Let G be a finitely generated residually finite group. This talk will discuss recent efforts to understand to what extent the set of finite quotients determine G. We will discuss examples of when there is ”rigidity” and when there is ”flexibility, with particular interest being when G is the fundamental group of a low-dimensional manifold.

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