Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

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Prof. Harish Seshadri 
Affiliation : IISc, Bangalore

Subject Area

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Mathematics

 

Venue

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Department of Mathematics, Lecture Hall I

 

Time

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03:30 - 04:30 PM

 

Date  

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October 21, 2016 (Friday)

Title

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"Fibrations, holomorphic motions and negative curvature"
Abstract

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classical theorem in Riemannian geometry asserts that products of compact manifolds cannot admit Riemannian metrics with negative sectional curvature. A fibration (or a fibre bundle) is a natural generalization of a product and hence one can ask if a fibration can admit such a metric. This question is still open and I will discuss it in the context of K\"ahler manifolds. This leads to the study of graphs of holomorphic motions, which originally arose in complex dynamics. I will sketch a proof that the graph cannot be biholomorphic to a ball or more generally, a strongly pseudoconvex domain.