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Affine Buildings
Mathematical Physics| Speaker: | Misha Kapovich, UCDavis, Math.Dept |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Jan 17 2012, 4:10PM |
Description
I will explain how to associate affine buildings to
algebraic groups and symmetric spaces.
In particular, I will explain how buildings appear in "anti-physics"
which describes a universe which is
smooth on small scale and chaotic on large scale, e.g., the hyperbolic plane.