Overview of Yamabe problem

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006.
Speaker
Amey Kaloti – Georgia Tech.
Organizer
Amey Kaloti
We will give an overview of ideas that go into solution of Yamabe problem: Given a compact Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension n > 2, find a metric conformal to g with constant scalar curvature.