Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

 SEMINAR

 

Speaker

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Dr. Gautam Bharali, IISc
Affiliation : Dept. of Mathematics, IISc, Bangalore

Subject Area

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Mathematics

 

Venue

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Lecture Hall - I, Dept of Mathematics

 

Time

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4.00 pm

 

Date  

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April 13, 2007 (Friday)

Title

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Local polynomial convexity of real surfaces in C^n near complex tangencies 
Abstract : More than 30 years after the Harvey-Wells paper on complex
approximation theory, we still do not know the answers to most of
the relevant approximation-theoretic questions on, say, a smooth,
compact 2-manifold (call it M) in C^2. Answering many of these
questions boils down to examining the local polynomial convexity of
M near those points where the (extrinsic) tangent space of M is a
complex subspace of the ambient C^2. We shall quickly survey what is
currently known, and then look at some recent progress based on
examining the Maslov index.

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