DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/PDE/NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR

                            Monday, November 6

                              Padelford C401
                                  3:45 pm

                             Robert Gutschera
                        (Wellesley College and UW)


                AUTOMORPHISM GROUPS OF GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES


Given a smooth manifold with some sort of geometric structure, such as a
Riemannian metric, conformal structure, or CR structure, the group of
automorphisms of that structure is typically a Lie group (unless the group
is "too big").  Some particular structures (Riemannian, conformal, CR,
Lorentz, and complex) will be surveyed, and the problem of the relation
between the Lie topology and the compact-open topology on the automorphism
group (the two topologies are not known to be the same in general) will be
discussed.


For more information about this seminar, view the Differential Geometry
Seminar World-Wide Web page at

    https://www.math.washington.edu/~lee/Seminars/dg.html


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