[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] Geometry & Topology seminar

[somnath at math.binghamton.edu]

BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

*Date:*  Thursday, September 12, 2013

*Time:*  2:50-3:50pm
*Place:*  Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson Reading
Room.

*Speaker: ** *Somnath Basu (Binghamton
University)
*Title: *The closed geodesic problem for four manifolds
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Abstract:* We will explain why a generic metric on a smooth four manifold
(with second Betti number at least three) has the exponential growth
property, i.e., the number of geometrically distinct periodic geodesics of
length at most l grow exponentially as a function of l. Time permitting,
we shall explain related topological consequences.