Seminar series
Date
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
16:00
16:00
Location
SR1
Speaker
Richard Wade
Organisation
Oxford
We introduce Outer space, a contractible finite dimensional topological space on which the outer automorphism group of a free group acts 'nicely.' We will explain what 'nicely' is, and provide motivation with comparisons to symmetric spaces, analogous spaces associated to linear groups.