Event
Assaf Bar-Natan (University of Toronto)
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: Medium-Scale Curvature for Cayley Graphs.
In this talk I will be presenting some preliminary results discussing a new notion of curvature for groups. Motivated by Ollivier's interpretation of Ricci curvature in terms of optimal transport, we define a combinatorial analogue of Ricci curvature, and show some elementary properties. This talk will mostly be about exploring the new idea, and discussing some of its quirks and anomalities with respect to more well-known groups and group constructions. This is joint work with M. Duchin and R. Kropholler.