Seminar series
Date
Wed, 06 Feb 2013
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
SR2
Speaker
Montserrat Casals-Ruiz
Organisation
University of Oxford
The theory of equations
over groups goes back to the very beginning of group theory and is
linked to many deep problems in mathematics, such as the Diophantine
problem over rationals. In this talk, we shall survey some of the key
results on equations over groups,
give an outline of the Makanin-Razborov process (an algorithm for
solving equations over free groups) and its connections to other results
in group theory and low-dimensional topology.