Manifolds with vanishing L$^2$ cohomology and various fundamental groups
Speaker:
Sylvain Cappell, New York University
Date and Time:
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Location:
Fields Institute, Stewart Library
Abstract:
We will survey work on characterization, invariants, classifications and cobordism theories of closed manifolds whose L$^2$ cohomology of their covering spaces vanishes. The resulting cobordism theories are usually infinitely generated and we discuss some computations.
