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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 2:00pm

Dmytro Yeroshkin

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4E9

In 1956 Milnor proved the existence of exotic 7-spheres. One question that arose was what kind of curvature do these admit. I will present the results of Gromoll and Meyer that show that at least one of the exotic 7-spheres admits non-negative curvature, and outline later results that refine the curvature properties of this particular 7-sphere.