I will discuss the influence of infinite-dimensional phenomena on several forms of finite-dimensional topological rigidity, including the Borel and Novikov Conjectures and the problem of deforming manifolds to each other in Gromov-Hausdorff space.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 4:30pm
Rutgers University
I will discuss the influence of infinite-dimensional phenomena on several forms of finite-dimensional topological rigidity, including the Borel and Novikov Conjectures and the problem of deforming manifolds to each other in Gromov-Hausdorff space.