11-24【Xiaoyang Chen】Rational ellipticity of Riemannian manifolds

Time:2022-11-22Views:30

Speaker:  Xiaoyang Chen(Tongji University)

Time: 14:00-15:00, Nov 24, 2022

Room: Tencent Meeting: 512-908-289, no password


    

It was conjectured by Bott-Grove-Halperin that a compact simply connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative sectional curvature is rationally elliptic, i.e., it has finite dimensional rational homotopy groups. We will discuss some recent progress on this conjecture.