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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 4:30pm

Blaine Lawson

Stony Brook University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

I will introduce the notion of jet-equivalence for subsolutions of a fully nonlinear partial differential equation on a manifold. These transformations are quite general and enable one to apply the methods of viscosity theory to establish basic comparison results. One outcome is the ability to solve the Dirichlet problem for G-universal equations on any manifold with a topological G-structure. Another is a basic restriction theorem for general (upper semi-continuous) subsolutions, which has interesting applications to almost complex manifolds.