Geometric Analysis and Topology Seminar

Ricci curvature and orientability

Speaker: Camillo Brena, IAS

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 101

Date: Friday, October 17, 2025, 9 a.m.

Synopsis:

This talk will focus on various definitions of orientability for non-smooth spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below. The stability of orientability and non-orientability will be discussed. As an application, we will prove the orientability of 4-manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth. 
This work is based on a collaboration with E. Bruè and A. Pigati.

Notes:

Note unusual time and location.