The Proof of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture (St Hugh's, 80 WR, 18)

The Proof of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture (St Hugh's, 80 WR, 18)

Wed, 12/10/2011
11:30 		Owen Cotton-Barratt (University of Oxford) Algebra Kinderseminar Add to calendar
The Proof of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture (St Hugh's, 80 WR, 18)
The Hanna Neumann Conjecture provides a bound on the rank of the intersection of finitely generated subgroups of a free group. We will follow Mineyev's recent elementary and beautiful proof of this longstanding conjecture.