Speaker: Chen Xiaoyang, Researcher, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tongji University

Date: December 5, 2022

Time: 14:00-15:00

Location: Tencent Meeting

Sponsor: School of Mathematics, Shandong University

Abstract:

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.

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