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Apr
08
2025

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

The Smale Conjecture for RP3 and Minimal Surfaces
Daniel Ketover
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In the early 80s Hatcher proved the Smale Conjecture, asserting that the diffeomorphism group of the three-sphere retracts onto its isometry group.  The corresponding problem for $RP^3$ was open nearly 40 years, and resolved only in 2019 by a...