Geometry working seminar

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Jonathan Herman, Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Totally Geodesic Immersions"

Given an isometric immersion, we will study further how the second  
fundamental form allows the geometry in the ambient space to be  
decomposed into geometry on the tangent and normal bundles. In  
particular, we'll discuss the Gauss-Codazzi equations. In the second  
part of the talk, we will look at totally geodesic immersions and some  
of their properties.