Feb 11 2010 - 2:30pm
Feb 11 2010 - 3:30pm
Ian Leary
The Ohio State University
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~fowler/ggt/ [1]
CH240
I'll state the Kan-Thurston theorem and various strengthenings/variations of it, and then I'll describe how to use CAT(0) cubical complexes to prove a version of it. I gave a similar talk some years ago at OSU, but the result has improved slightly since then.