14/06/2005, 14:00 — 15:00 — Room P12, Mathematics Building
William Goldman, University of Maryland
Projective geometry on manifolds (I)
Geometric structures on topological spaces
- Klein geometries.
- Geometric atlases for Ehresmann structures.
- Fundamental domains and identification spaces.
- Developing the universal covering space.
- Representions of the fundamental group.
- The hierarchy of Klein geometries.
- Pathological developing maps.