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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 11:00am

Alina Badus

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

Theorema Egregium asserts that curvature is an invariant of the metric. Conversely, we want to know to what extent curvature determines the metric; in other words, if a diffeomorphism preserves the sectional curvature, is it an isometry? I will present R. S. Kulkarni's paper "Curvature and metric", which solves the problem for analytic metrics in dimensions greater than or equal to 4.