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Bing's Theorem

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Kei Nakamura, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Nov 16 2006, 11:00AM

My talk will be on Bing's Theorem which gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a closed orientable 3-manifold to be a 3-sphere. I will discuss three ways to prove this theorem. If time permits, I will talk about some generalizations.