Milnor's construction of flat SL(2,R)-bundles (a pre-history of Higgs bundles)

sala 0.06, Edifício dos Departamentos de Matemática, FCUP
Wednesday, 22 March, 2006 - 14:30

In 1957 Milnor constructed flat bundles with non-trivial Euler classes. We will describe these and re-interpret them in the language of modern Higgs bundles.

Speaker: 

Steven Bradlow