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Tuesday Seminar on Topology
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| Date, time & place | Tuesday 16:00 - 17:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.) |
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| Organizer(s) | IKE Yuichi, KONNO Hokuto, SAKASAI Takuya |
2026/05/19
17:30-18:30 Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Joint with Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar. See our seminar webpage.
Yosuke Morita (Kyushu University)
Compact Clifford-Klein forms and homotopy theory of sphere bundles (JAPANESE)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
Joint with Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar. See our seminar webpage.
Yosuke Morita (Kyushu University)
Compact Clifford-Klein forms and homotopy theory of sphere bundles (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Let G/H be a homogeneous space of reductive type (such as the pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic space H^{p,q}). If a discrete subgroup of G acts properly and freely on G/H, the quotient space becomes a manifold locally modelled on G/H and is called a Clifford-Klein form. In this talk, I will explain a new necessary condition on G/H for the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms, formulated in terms of homotopy theory of sphere bundles. Our theorem and Adams's solution to the ‘vector fields on sphere’ problem (1962) together imply the following result: unless p is divisible by 2^{ν(q)}, there does not exist a compact complete pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p,q) with constant negative sectional curvature. Here, ν(q) is an explicit natural number roughly equal to q/2. This is joint work with Fanny Kassel and Nicolas Tholozan.
[ Reference URL ]Let G/H be a homogeneous space of reductive type (such as the pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic space H^{p,q}). If a discrete subgroup of G acts properly and freely on G/H, the quotient space becomes a manifold locally modelled on G/H and is called a Clifford-Klein form. In this talk, I will explain a new necessary condition on G/H for the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms, formulated in terms of homotopy theory of sphere bundles. Our theorem and Adams's solution to the ‘vector fields on sphere’ problem (1962) together imply the following result: unless p is divisible by 2^{ν(q)}, there does not exist a compact complete pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p,q) with constant negative sectional curvature. Here, ν(q) is an explicit natural number roughly equal to q/2. This is joint work with Fanny Kassel and Nicolas Tholozan.
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html
