Topological median structures on R^n
- 👤 Speaker: Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 05 September 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
A topological median structure on a topological space X is acontinuous map m:X3->X satisfying certain axioms. A CAT cube complex X has a natural median structure, where m(a,b,c) is theunique point that belongs to three l1-gedesics that connect each pairab, ac, bc. In a work in progress, joint with Ken Bromberg and MichahSageev, we show that median structures on R^n are locally induced bycubulations of neighborhoods. The proof is by induction on n, andrequires us to prove the same theorem for ER homology manifolds.
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Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
Friday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:00