Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

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 Prof. Anuradha Garge
Affiliation : Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai.

Subject Area

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Mathematics

 

Venue

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Lecture Hall I, Department of Mathematic

 

Time

:

11.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.

 

Date  

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December15, 2011 (Thursday)

Title

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"A nice group structure on certain orbit spaces of unimodular rows"
Abstract

:

In this talk, we will begin with the definition of a unimodular row and its relation to Serre's problem on projective modules. We will then see under what conditions group structures exist on orbit spaces of unimodular rows under elementary action. Though the group structure is quite complicated in general, there is a nice formula for the group structure in certain special cases like affine algebras or polynomial rings. As a consequence of the nice group structure, one can complete certain unimodular rows elementarily too. The talk will be accessible to students.