Aslı Güçlükan İlhan, Dokuz Eylül University.
Date: 28th of February, 2018, Wednesday. Time: 09:30 – 12:00.
Place: Dokuz Eylül Univ., Tınaztepe Campus, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Room B206.
Abstract: A small cover is a smooth closed manifold which admits a
locally standard (Z/2)^n-action whose orbit space is a simple
convex polytope. The notion of a small cover is introduced by Davis and
Januszkiewicz as a generalization of real toric manifolds. In this talk,
we first discuss the small covers over cubes whose complete
characterization is given by Choi-Masuda-Oum. Using this classification,
they also show that small covers over cubes satisfy the cohomological
rigidity problem. We also discuss the recent results obtained by
Altunbulak-Güçlükan İlhan about the number of small covers over product of
simplices.