Friday, November 11, 2016 9:00 am
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9:00 am
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Jonathan Herman, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Existence and Uniqueness of Moment Maps”
Given a symplectic manifold, we will study under which conditions a Lie group action is guaranteed to admit a moment map. To do this, we will look at Lie algebra cohomology and in particular the Whitehead lemmas.
MC 5403